Advanced Propulsion Systems

Beyond Rocket Science -

An Overview

2012 - 9th Annual

Aerospace Systems & Technology Conference
Dr. Don V Black
http://www.DonVBlack.com
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Overview
History - Over 800 years of chemical rockets
Alternatives Beyond Rocket Science
Challenges
1. Exit from this Gravity Well
2. Travel Time
a. Interplanetary
b. Interstellar
Theoretical Solutions
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What do we Really Know?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Shakespeare, Hamlet Act II, Scene V

1. What we know we know (or think we know)

2. What we know we dont know (this gedanken)
3. What we dont know we know
4. What we dont know we dont know
- Don V Black (not Rumsfled)
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Requirements of Alternatives
1. Popper Falsifiable
2. Conservation of Momentum
3. Conservation of Energy
4. External Force Requirement (for acceleration)
5. Must be Sustainable
6. Consistent with Empirical Observation
7. Controllable (on/off, throttled, directional)
8. Practical Performance Levels
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The New Aether
Dark Energy (6.9 x 10-27 Kg/m3)
Dark Matter (2.1 x 10-27 Kg/m3)
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) (10-31)
Quantum Vacuum (1018 Kg/m3)
Virtual Particle Pairs
Galactic Hydrogen (3.3 x 10-21 Kg/m3)
Spacetime
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Hypothetical Alternatives
Two fundamental propulsion strategies:

Diverge from the Geodesic

Use Force to push a massive object off the
Geodesic

Modify the Geodesic

Engineer Spacetime to make the Geodesic take
you where you want to go, i.e. let you `fall there.
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Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force)
Interstellar Jet
Space Sails (Solar, Light, Magnetic, Particle Beam)
Inertial Modification (Rocket, Oscillator)
Electromagnetic Catapults (<12 km/s)

SpaceX Engine Test Firing

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Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force)
Interstellar Jet (M*V + m*v = 0)
Chemical Propulsion
Bussard Ramjet with Beamed Energy
(a magnetic field a few miles to hundreds of miles in diameter)
(Fission, Fusion, or Antimatter collecting and heating The New Aether)
Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Propulsion
Fusion Propulsion (Rocket or Ramjet) via ICF or MCF
Fission Fragment Propulsion (Rocket & Sail)
Advanced Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP)
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Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force)
Interstellar Jet (M*V + m*v = 0)
Bussard Ramjet with Beamed Energy (a magnetic field miles in diameter)
(Fission, Fusion, or Antimatter collecting and heating The New Aether)
Fission, Fusion, or Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Propulsion
(Project Orion in early 1960s: 10 M hp. Mars roundtrip for 200 men is four weeks)
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Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force)
Interstellar Jet (M*V + m*v = 0)
Fusion Propulsion (Rocket or Ramjet) via ICF or MCF
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Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force)
Interstellar Jet (M*V + m*v = 0)
Advanced Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP)

Variable Specific Impulse

Electric Ion Propulsion (EIT)
Magnetoplasma Rocket
Asteroid Deflection Tool
(VSIMR)
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Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force)
Space Sails
Differential, Induction & Diode
Solar Sails & Light Sails
Magnetic Sails & Particle Beam Sails
Fission Fragment
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Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force)
Space Sails
Differential, Induction & Diode
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Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force)
Space Sails
Solar Sails & Light Sails
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Diverge from the Geodesic (via Force)
Space Sails
Magnetic Sails & Particle Beam Sails
Fission Fragment
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Use the Geodesic
Inertial Modification (Rocket, Oscillator)
Reduce Rocket/Fuel Inertia Ratio
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Hypothetical Alternatives
Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime)

Field Drives (Diametric, Disjunction, Gradient,

Bias)
Negative Matter & Negative Energy
(Everything not forbidden is compulsory Gel-Mann)
Warp Drives & Worm Holes
Gravity Control
There are more
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Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime)
Field Drives (Diametric, Disjunction,
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Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime)
Field Drives (Gradient, Bias)
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Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime)
Negative Matter & Negative Energy
(Everything not forbidden is compulsory Gel-Mann)

Negative Mass is such a Handy Tool

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Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime)
Warp Drives & Worm Holes
(need Negative Mass)
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Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime)
Gravity Control & Anti-Gravity
Gravitomagnetic Forces (GR Frame Dragging)
Negative Energy Antigravity
(GR negative energy density & negative pressure are EFE solutions)

Cosmological Antigravity
(Energy Density Pressure, Vacuum Energy of Dark Energy, Inflation)

Levi-Civita & Gertsenshtein Effects

(Possible EMF GR interactions shown in EFE & EMF Eqns)
(Levi-Civita: Gravitational field induced by EMF - Pauli)
(Gert.: EMF resonance phenomena that produces an EFE Wave)

Antigravity Solutions in Quantum Gravity Theories

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In Conclusion
Chemical
Nuclear Electric Pulsed Ion Propulsion
Earth/Lunar Based Laser Light Sails
Earth & Lunar Catapults
The Search for Negative Matter

Research Novel Theories. Do the Math.

Fill in the Details.
You Are The New Engineers.
Advanced Propulsion Systems
Beyond Rocket Science -
An Overview

2012 - 9th Annual

Aerospace Systems & Technology Conference
Dr. Don V Black
http://www.DonVBlack.com
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Modify the Geodesic (Engineer Spacetime)
Beyond Science Fiction
Negative Matter is such a Handy Tool