THERE WILL BE NO PHOTON ROCKET

Abstract

The problems facing interstellar flight powered by any known means are evaluated. It is concluded that nuclear powered flight at either relativistic or subrelativistic velocities is impractical, and that interstellar flight awaits the discovery of some as yet unknown force.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 25, 1965
Accession Number
AD0611872

Entities

People

  • V. Smilga

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Cosmic Rays
  • Energy
  • Engines
  • Foreign Technology
  • Hard Copy
  • Internal Combustion Engines
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Fuels
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • Payload
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rockets
  • Stars
  • Translations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Electronics Engineering
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers