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• Conventional rockets
  ...l the thrust profile. Solid rockets typically have large thrusts but lower specific impulses. There also can't be used for rocket control as the rate of burn c ...ed through the reaction chamber where the solid rocket lies to control the thrust. Historically they weren't used for performance reasons but new types of hy
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• Electric acceleration
  All thrust is based on action/reaction. That means you must push on something. A rocke ...per unit of electric charge. Notice, increasing propellant mass increases thrust force but also increases mass of propellant to be carried. In terms of redu
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• Exhaust velocity
  == Relation to Thrust == The exhaust velocity, v_e, is related to the [[thrust]] by the equation:
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• Nuclear electric
  ...sequently they can achieve more thrust at a given propellant efficiency ([[specific impulse]]).
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• Pulsed Inductive Thruster (PIT)
  ...due to an evolving understanding of future NASA mission requirements, the specific impulse (Isp) had been raised from the 1500 - 2000 second range (in the mar The report also notes that, as a pulsed device, thrust and power output can be increased by increasing the pulse frequency. Thus t
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• Pure electric propulsion
  ...e pure electric propulsion implies a greater energy efficiency for a given specific impulse as a consequence of reduced entropy in the [[rocket exhaust]]. Thus
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• Space Terminology and Acronyms
  ; [[ISP]] : see [[Specific impulse]] ; Specific anything : Means it refers to the amount of one quantity in reference to it
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• Specific impulse
  | Ion Electric || 3000 (low thrust) Specific impulse is a measure of the effectiveness of a fuel in a type of engine, us
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• VASIMR
  ...t is a marginal improvement over ion engines or Hall thrusters in terms of thrust for any given power level but will allow much faster transit times once muc ...clopedia/V/VASIMR.html The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology]] VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket)<br>
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• Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster
  ...r (also called an MPD arc-jet) is a form of electric rocket which produces thrust through the interaction between a current flowing through a plasma and a ma ...in electromagnetic thrusters is called a Lorenz force and the direction of thrust is perpendicular to both the current and the magnetic field. In physics, th
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• RocketDesignSpreadsheet
  ...esigned so you can make high level changes such as tank volume and overall thrust to mass ratio and it will scale the details of the rocket accordingly. This -How do low thrust high ISP rockets compare to high thrust low ISP rockets.?
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