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Category: Advanced Propulsion

Outbound Operational Plan for Space Migration: Robots to Kuiper Belt

November 13, 2019 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, Asteroids!, Wagons Ho!

We’ve been on a trend of talking about all the places in the Solar System that we shouldn’t go, as they aren’t habitable. That leads to OPS.15, the robotic exploration of the Kuiper Belt. Named

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Hammerstrike Dispatch #2

September 25, 2019 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, Asteroids!, Astrosociology

In a story from SpaceDaily/Sputnik News, it’s fully apparent that under our current ability to detect incoming asteroid or comet impactor we may never have any warning. “Because there may be media coverage tomorrow, I’m

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Outbound Operational Plan for Space Migration: Robotic Asteroid Exploration

June 4, 2019 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, Asteroids!, Astrosociology, Wagons Ho!

So far, I’ve been charting a programmatic course that has taken Outbound to the moon with robotic surveys and construction demonstrations. Now it’s time to flex some operational muscle and go for stretch goals. In

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Marching Towards Warp Drive

January 15, 2018 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, Wagons Ho!, WarpTech

There is interesting news afoot in particle physics. It seems that some researchers from the University of Rochester have created quasi-particles known as polaritons at room temperature, and these little beauties exhibit behavior of objects

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Science: Disciplines Collide to Discover Warp Fields?

April 29, 2015 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, WarpTech

h/t to MarsBlog Based on information here: http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/04/nasa-may-have-accidentally-developed-a-warp-drive/ And more in-depth technical discussion here: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36313.1860 It seems that work at Johnson Space Center (JSC) on an EmDrive, where microwaves are used to create thrust, may

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Ares vs. Luna – Should the Siblings Fight?

April 27, 2015 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, Asteroids!, Astrosociology, Uncategorized, Wagons Ho!

I am a very long-time supporter and member of the Moon Society, from way back in the 1990’s, and feel pretty strongly about the need to establish a beachhead on the Moon. There are a

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Triad – Three Technologies Unite for Mars

April 3, 2015 Outbound Advanced Propulsion, Asteroids!, Astrosociology, Wagons Ho!

VASIMR Plasma Propulsion Small Fusion Systems Asteroid Retrieval In the past few months the three items of my extreme interest have hit the news, and it has me pondering if NASA may be putting together

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