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Fuel Efficient Five-Gear Rocket Engine Design (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/24/0859240) - Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analogous to staying all the time in first gear. Georgia Tech researchers have designed a new space rocket which works as if it has a five-gear transmission system. (Slashdot; Feb. 24, 2007)
Fuel Efficient Five-Gear Rocket Engine Design (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/24/0859240) - Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analogous to staying all the time in first gear. Georgia Tech researchers have designed a new space rocket which works as if it has a five-gear transmission system. (Slashdot; Feb. 24, 2007)

Directory of methods of increasing propulsion efficiency, and new methods of producing propulsion that are clean, renewable and potentially feasible.

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Companies

  • Applied Plasma Technologies (http://www.plasmacombustion.com/) Applied Plasma Technologies (APT) develops and manufactures plasma assisted combustion systems for reliable ignition, flame control, clean and stable combustion of different fuels in gas turbines, high speed propulsion systems, boilers, technological burners.
  • Magnetohydrodynamics:Plasma-Powered Flying Saucers - With a span of less than 15 centimetres, Subrata Roy's aircraft qualifies as a micro air vehicle (MAV), but it has an unconventional design to say the least. It is a saucer shape covered with electrodes that ionise air to create a plasma. (PESWiki; May 10, 2008)

Technologies

The Cutting Edge

On Feb. 24, 2008, Daniel Bowers wrote:

I was just looking at the new propulsion wiki page and realized that those systems are primitive compared to the other concepts for space propulsion.

Plasma rocket:

The late Robert Bussards concept for a plasma fusion rocket

Antimatter Propulsion

Antimatter

Traveling at 186,000 miles per second we could get to Alpha Centauri in 4 years. Current methods of space travel can do this in 40,000 years. 7 or even 10 miles per second doesn't get us anywhere.

The future of space exploration lays in antimatter rockets

Antimatter sail

NAIC Mars explorer antimatter concept

There are many variations of these types of systems, the first generation will most likely be antimatter assisted plasma fusion rockets. Well, first fusion, then fusion rockets, then antimatter assisted plasma rockets and ultimately antimatter propulsion systems which will lead the way to Alpha Centauri and beyond within the next couple of centuries.

Other Technologies

  • Unitel Aerospace and macroscopic quantum tunneling (http://www.americanantigravity.com/articles/563/1/Larry-Maurer-Interview-2) - Tim Ventura interviews Larry Maurer, CEO of Unitel Aerospace, which has been a leader in community space-activism with their breakthrough propulsion approach to future space flight. (American AntiGravity; June 27, 2006)
  • NASA Holds Competition to Develop Space Vehicles (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/25/2121238) - US space agency is holding a competition to develop space vehicles NASA doesn't have the time or resources to develop. The winning companies will get $500 million and NASA will merely lease them as the need arises. (Slashdot; June 25, 2006)
  • Fuel Efficient Five-Gear Rocket Engine Designed (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/24/0859240) - Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analogous to staying all the time in first gear. Georgia Tech researchers have designed a new space rocket which works as if it has a five-gear transmission system. (Slashdot; Feb. 24, 2007)
  • Human Power > Moving Big Rocks (http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/moving_big_rocks) - Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity. (J Walk Blog; Oct. 17, 2006)

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