Traveling to Mars in one week!

Martian Republic · 2007-09-14 21:06:18

We have talked about it before and this article may already be here on somebody else post. It so, disregard or check out this site anyway.

http://www.photonics.com/content/news/2 … 88894.aspx

http://www.baeinstitute.com/

Enjoy it!

Larry,

Terraformer · 2007-09-15 10:58:09

That would mean you could get to Ceres in that time as well. Hehehehehe.

Martian Republic · 2007-09-15 16:52:24

That would mean you could get to Ceres in that time as well. Hehehehehe.

It is this type of technology that will solve most of our transportation problem to Mars or the Moon and not trying to use chemical rockets. With chemical rockets we have to wait for the window to launch to Mars and then it take six months or longer to get there. You would not have near the problem of radiation sickness, because you would only be in space for one week where you being bathed in radiation instead of six months or longer. You would also not have the degeneration problem of witlessness in space for six months and other such space sicknesses either.

This would be a powered craft that could fly to Mars anytime that we choose to fly to Mars and we would not have to wait for that window that we would have to wait for if we used chemical rockets. Imagine what we could do if we had two or three hundred of those space ships and the infrastructure to support them and the shuttle at all three points to get up and down on the Earth, Mars and Moon. Some of those ships would be passenger ships. Others would be cargo ships to carry needed supplies back and forth where we need those supplies. And still other would be mining ships to gather resources from the asteroid belt and bring it to the factories to manufacture other goods and services to supply a space economy that we want to build.

If we are really serious about colonizing Mars, that the only way to go and get the job done.

Larry,

naitsabes · 2007-11-11 13:03:14

so any news on this one, or is it already dead?

cIclops · 2007-11-11 15:33:40

It was never really alive. All that Bae have demonstrated is an extremely low thrust photonic thruster. It's a long long way from propelling a spacecraft to Mars.

Hi and emoclew to newmars naitsabes!

naitsabes · 2007-11-12 08:08:42

it really got my hopes up... oh well

cIclops · 2007-11-12 08:32:49

Traveling to Mars requires a lot of energy. New Horizons has probably made the fastest transit ever, it took 78 days and flew past at high speed. Even nuclear rockets will need about 120 days. Ares V, the new big chemical rocket, will need about 200 days to take people there. It would require an incredible breakthrough in propulsion to get there in 7 days.

naitsabes · 2007-11-12 08:40:06

but why can't New Horizons be used to take humans to mars?

cIclops · 2007-11-12 12:31:26

but why can't New Horizons be used to take humans to mars?

New Horizons used one of the most powerful rockets available, an Atlas V 551 with two upper stages just to launch a 500 kg spacecraft. It needed all that power to get to Pluto by 2015. It wouldn't be able to land on Mars because of its speed (75,000 kms/h) or carry any humans because of its size.

Number04 · 2007-11-12 15:07:57

But it is nice to daydream isn't it?

If it only took a matter of weeks instead of years to reach out and “touch” our solar system I think a lot more interest would be generated. A breakthrough such as that would actually usher in a space age. Not the LEO age we are tinkering in at the moment.

JoshNH4H · 2007-11-12 15:55:05

A good way to travel, if there was ever one devised, would be to harvest the power of neutrinoes. If I'm getting my figures right, there are more neutrinos hitting you at night (they come from the sun, if anyone didn't know, if everyone already does, never hurts to reiterate things 8) )than photons during the day. They only interact through the weak force and gravity, so it will be hard to stop them/use some of their energy, butmybe using high concentracions of neutrons. The onlu problem with this is that they decayv into protium (hudrogen 1) after about 15 minutes. Any ideas?

Gregori · 2008-04-04 16:20:09

If these guys can do what they say they can do, this would be really awesome news for Mars exploration and humanity in general.

I'm still holding out for either CERN or EMC2 to crack fusion power.

Terraformer · 2008-04-05 08:53:27

New Horizons speed in km/s?

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