In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to possible ship drives, the sky is not the limit.

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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium

Episode 388, March 30, 2023

Produced & Written by: Isaac Arthur

Narrated by:

Isaac Arthur

Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editors:

Darius Said

David McFarlane

Sarah Fowler Arthur

▬ Spaceship Drive Index ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 Intro

3:12 Alcubierre Drive

4:10 Antimatter Ablated Light Sail

5:06 Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion

6:13 Antimatter Rocket

8:12 Arcjet Rocket

9:15 Bias Drive

10:02 Black Hole Drive

11:23 Bussard Ramjet

14:04 Caplan Thruster

14:39 Chemical Rockets

16:24 Clarketech

17:30 Diametric Drive

18:51 Disjunction Drive

19:31 Electric Solar Wind Sail

21:26 Electrodynamic Tethering

22:59 EM Drive

24:15 Exhaust Velocity

26:03 Field Propulsion

26:34 FTL or Faster Than Light Drives

27:20 Fuel

27:59 Fusion Torch Drive

30:02 Gravitational Dipole

31:31 Gravitic Propulsion

32:58 Hall Effect Thruster

34:46 Hawking Radiation Drive

36:45 Helicon Double-Layer Thruster

37:22 Helios Drive

38:41 Hyperspace Jump Engine or Hyperdrive

40:09 Inertia Reduction Drive

41:39 Ion Drive

43:15 Krasnikov Tube

44:52 Laser Sail

47:21 Magnetic Solar Wind Sail

48:03 Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster

49:41 Matter Beam

51:09 Medusa Drive

51:43 Microwave Electrothermal Thruster

52:57 Negative Mass Propulsion

54:25 Neutrino Rocket

56:08 Nova Drive

57:41 Nuclear Electric Ion Drive

57:11 Nuclear Lightbulb

58:09 Nuclear Pulse Drive

1:00:40 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

1:02:19 Orion Drive

1:02:40 Oxidizer

1:03:10 Photon Rocket

1:05:48 Pitch Drive

1:06:38 Propellant

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