Design for a 400 tonne nuclear pulse propelled uncrewed spacecraft to reach and orbit Alpha Centauri
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Project Longshot was a conceptual interstellar spacecraft design. It would have been an uncrewed starship (about 400 tonnes), intended to fly to and enter orbit around Alpha Centauri B powered by nuclear pulse propulsion.[1]
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ProjectLongshot was a conceptual interstellar spacecraft design. It would have been an uncrewed starship (about 400 tonnes), intended to fly to and enter...
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have been the baseline for most later designs, including Project Daedalus and ProjectLongshot. Calculations for a potential use of this technology were...
UCSB study of fleet of small laser light sail interstellar probes ProjectLongshot – Design for a 400 tonne nuclear pulse propelled uncrewed spacecraft...
portal Space portal Breakthrough Starshot Project Icarus ProjectLongshot Enzmann starship K. F. Long (2012). "Project Daedalus". Deep Space Propulsion: A Roadmap...
carries other smaller vehicles Project Icarus (interstellar) – 2009 project to update design of Project Daedalus ProjectLongshot – Design for a 400 tonne nuclear...
superficially-similar SSTO shuttlecraft is featured in the movie Avatar. Project Prometheus ProjectLongshot "Valkyrie Antimatter Starship". Atomic Rockets: Slower Than...
speed of travel. Proposed concepts include Project Daedalus, Project Icarus, Project Dragonfly, ProjectLongshot, and more recently Breakthrough Starshot...
century, inspiring several studies such as Project Orion, Project Daedalus, and ProjectLongshot. Project Breakthrough Starshot aims to reach the Alpha...
over 60 years ago, such as nuclear fusion (Project Daedalus) and nuclear pulse propulsion (ProjectLongshot), but have since been discontinued from practical...
mass of over 50 thousand metric tonnes from orbit. ProjectLongshot (1987–1988) ProjectLongshot was a proposed nuclear pulse propulsion craft that used...
Tests Project Daedalus (British Interplanetary Society study to create a plausible design for an interstellar probe) ProjectLongshotProject Jennifer...
robotic space exploration, for example, with the Breakthrough Starshot project. Announced on 24 August 2016 by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)...
Daedalus, 1970s British Interplanetary Society study of a fusion rocket ProjectLongshot, US Naval Academy-NASA nuclear pulse propulsion design AIMStar, a proposed...
to study the interstellar medium as well as reach Alpha Centauri. The project would require more antimatter than we are capable of producing. In addition...
Research Projects Agency. Retrieved February 5, 2021. "Contracts for September 14, 2020". U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. Retrieved February 5, 2021. "LongShot"....
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