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Advanced Space Propulsion Systems, Lecture 317.014 (slide show)Dr. Martin Tajmar, Ph.D.,
Institute of Lightweight
Structures and
Aerospace Engineering (ILFB),
Vienna University of Technology
2003 LECTURE SUMMARY
(Advanced Audience)
(Adobe PDF file)
2002 LECTURE SUMMARY
(Advanced Audience)
(Adobe PDF file)
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EMERGING SPACECRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEMS
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SpaceShipOne Captures X-Prize
Tier One Private Manned Space Program,
Scaled Composites
(General Audience)
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Scramjet - Hypersonic Flight
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X-43A: NASA Goes Hypersonic
Research Aircraft, Missions,
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)
(General Audience)
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Ion Propulsion - Ion Drive
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ION PROPULSION
Glenn Research Center (GRC),
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)
(General to Technical Audience)
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DEEP SPACE 1
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) &
California Institute of Technology
(General Audience)
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ESA and ANU make space propulsion breakthrough
ESA News, European Space Agency (ESA)
[ 11 January 2006 ]
(General Audience)
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ION PROPULSION - Over 50 Years in the Making
Science@NASA,
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)
[ 6 April 1999 ]
(General Audience)
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NASA’S DEEP SPACE 1 SUCCEEDS IN
CLOSE ASTEROID FLYBY
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) &
California Institute of Technology
[ 29 July 1999 ] (General Audience)
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NSTAR ION ENGINE
Boeing Electron Dynamic Devices,
Satellite Development Center (SDC),
Integrated Defense Systems (IDS),
The Boeing Company (Boeing)
(General Audience)
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SOLAR ELECTRIC (ION) PROPULSION
Deep Space 1, Technology,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) &
California Institute of Technology
(General Audience)
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Xenon Ion Propulsion Center
Boeing Electron Dynamic Devices,
Satellite Development Center (SDC),
Integrated Defense Systems (IDS),
The Boeing Company (Boeing)
(General Audience)
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SPACE PROPULSION RESEARCH
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THEORETICAL SPACE PROPULSION TECHNOLOGIES
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Solar sail
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation
(General to Advanced Audience)
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Interstellar Space Travel & Warp Drive
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Reaching for Interstellar Flight
Leonard Davis, SPACE.com, Imaginova Corp.
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Take a leap into hyperspace
Haiko Lietz, New Scientist Space,
NewScientist.com, New Scientist Print Edition,
Reed Business Information Ltd.
[ 5 January 2006 ] (General to Advanced Audience)
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FIELD RESONANCE PROPULSION CONCEPT (NASA)
JSC-16073 (NASA-TM-80961), Johnson Space Center (JSC),
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)
[ August 1979 ]
courtesy of James Hartman & KeelyNet
(General to Advanced Audience)
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Warp Drive, When?
Marc G. Millis, Glenn Research Center (GRC),
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)
(General to Advanced Audience)
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Reality begins as a dream.
We’ve all heard the quote, “If man were meant to fly, God would
have given him wings.” Yet millions of people throughout the world
have flown — in fact, have flown so, so much farther than the
Wright Brothers’ first flight took Orville Wright. Could we one
day routinely voyage to other planets within our solar system, or even to
the stars? NASA believes so, and is actively pursuing advanced space
travel and space propulsion technologies for powering spacecraft
to the planets in the solar system and beyond.
In fact, one of these new technologies, ion propulsion, became
reality when it successfully powered the Deep Space 1 (DS1) spacecraft to
a close encounter on 29 July 1999 with asteroid 9969 Braille (a.k.a.
1992 KD), a small asteroid with an eccentric orbit that periodically
carries it inside the orbit of Mars. Ion propulsion is also being used in
a more down to earth application, powering station-keeping thrusters
on the Astra 2A European TV satellite (launched 30 August 1998). The ion
propulsion thrusters, which must be fired every day to maintain proper
orbit, are expected to extend the satellite’s useful life span from
the normal ten years to as much as 25 years.
Chemical rockets, good for getting us outside of Earth’s
atmosphere, are grossly inefficient for interstellar space travel.
More efficient technologies are essential if mankind is to traverse the
distances between the planets in the solar system or has any hope
of voyaging to distant star systems. There is no shortage of theories
as to how we will propel ourselves through deep space, this subject having
long been a predominant theme of science fiction writers. NASA has
actively recruited proposals, which are now taking shape behind a raft of
equations and materials specifications. Many of these proposals are not
feasible utilizing current technology; others are doable, but are
cost-prohibitive in nature.
Just as numerous obstacles were overcome to make ion propulsion a reality, so
it will be as some of the latest proposals make it off the drawing board
and into laboratories and manufacturing facilities. To our
grandchildren, flight to distant planets may be routine; to
their grandchildren, exploration of distant star systems may be
the dream that becomes reality. So long as Man’s thirst for exploration lives
on, the barriers to that exploration will continue to fall. New space
propulsion systems will take us to the stars; it is only a
matter of time.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 7 July 2003, updated 16 June
2006.
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