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#157 – Natalya Bailey: Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion

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The Game Changer Is Propellerless Propulsion

The real game changer would be propellantless propulsion. The most recent engine like this that has was just debunked this year. If you have two plates and the space between them is on the order of these, like the wavelength of these ephemeral vacuum particles that pop into and out of existence or something, I may be confusing multiple types of propellantless forces. But that could be real and could be something that we use eventually. It will be the power source.

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