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[Interview] Why Is Nobody Talking About Multi-Stage Interstellar Spaceships?
1 hour 14 minutes Posted Aug 12, 2024 at 10:00 pm.
Intro
Sail close to the Sun
Interstellar velocities
Transferring power to spacecraft
Data transfer
Multi-stage interstellar ship
How will a realistic mission look like
Current obsessions
Final thoughts
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Interstellar travel might not be as impossible as most people think. Especially if we adopt the multi-stage approach that we already use in everyday rockets. How can we do it and what results we can expect? Finding out in this interview.
👉 Interstellar Travel Without Breaking Physics with Andrew Higgins:
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📜 Sunbeam: Near-sun statites as beam platforms for beam-driven rockets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524003837?via%3Dihub
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