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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Future of Rocketry

Resisto jet rockets are an example of electric propulsion using a power supply to create electricity that we then run through resistors. We also arc jet, microwave electrothermal thruster and gravitational dipole drive. See our episode reusable rockets for more discussion of this topic. The rocket equation governs how fast a ship can go based on the speed its propellant moves out of the ship,. Its exhaust velocity, and the ratio of its initial mass when full of a rocket fuel and oxizer to its final mass when that fuel is expended.

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