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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Electro-Dynamic Tethering and EM Drive

Electro-dynamic tethering is an electric propulsion technique available around large magnetic fields, such as many planets like Earth have. By having a satellite with an anode hanging below it attached by an insulated tether, we can run electric current through that system and push away from Earth. Such technology is also good for station keeping of satellites, space stations, or high orbital variations of a rotivator meant a slingshot of ship in a deep space at high speed.

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