FUTURE SPACE TECHNOLOGY
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Future Space Travel
Futuristic Models:
• The General Theory of Relativity suggests dimensions beyond time and 3 dimensional space
• SOME FUTURE MODELS :1. Warp Drive.2. Nuclear pulse propulsion.3. Solar sail.
Solar Sails
• Also called as “light sails” & “photon sails”.
• Uses the radiation pressure or the solar pressure from stars to push large ultra thin mirrors to high speed.
• Every second solar winds are emerging from the stars(sun).
• It offers the possibility of low cost operations.
• Solar pressure affects almost every objects in the universe.
• A typical spacecraft going to Mars, for example, will be displaced by thousands of kilometers by solar pressure.
• For using this energy effectively “solar sails” theory is formed.
NUCLEAR PULSE PROPULSION
• Driven by series of nuclear explosions.
• Increases speed by stage by stage..• Atlast it acquires the “Speed of light”..• CURRENT PROJECTS :• Project Orion :
-would use nuclear bombs as propellant, possible with existing technology.• Project Medusa :
-uses large sail to maximize energy deposited by nuclear blast.
• Antimatter Catalyzed NPP :-antimatter reduces the amount of
material needed for fission reaction.
Warp drive
• Uses gravitational effect to compress the space-time in front of spacecraft then expand the space-time behind it.
• Relativity suggest it might be possible..
• Outside observers would see the spacecraft move “faster than light”.
• Inside observers would not feel any acceleration
• The net effect is rather like surfing where you are nearly stationary with respect to the wave, but are traveling with the speed of the wave.
• Nasa currently working on such a theory called “SPEEDS”.
• It could take a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in a mere two weeks eventhough the system is 4.3 light-years away..
In the next 50 years, science fiction will have become science fact.
Space-Opens endless number of channels for engineers.
The final adventure for those seeking the unknown.
Perhaps you will be the one to discover this type of technology..