After the expected return of the man to the moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as well as the private space company SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, plan to take action on end on Martian soil for the first time and perhaps even the formation of a colony that could thrive in the Red Planet – but how do they do that?
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A trip to Mars may be accelerated by the new concept fusion rocket launchers.
Long space travel issues
While space travel is commonplace, what with astronauts going to and from the International Space Station (ISS), a trip to Mars would take a long time, with the technology we currently have.
In a previous report by Tech Times, studies have found that long space flights can be dangerous to humans, so a trip to Mars can be deadly, which is one of the problems that astronauts face. -science trying to solve before anyone could step into Mars. .
However, a new invention by a scientist could solve the problem.
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A new concept could be like our ticket to Mars
In a report by Sky News, Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi, a physicist with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) of the U.S. Department of Energy has designed a fusion rocket ball that could travel space faster than it currently does.
According to the report, the rocket uses magnetic fields that burn plasma particles, which are gases with electricity, to penetrate further into space.
The speed of that rocket would be ten times faster than any comparable engines we have now.
Plasma propulsion engines are currently used in space missions, but they use electric fields to direct the grains, but the rocket designed by Dr. Ebrahimi would use magnetic reconnection.
The process is very common in our universe, but it is usually seen on the surface of the sun, each time magnetic fields come together in the surface of our host star before they separate and reconnect. again, they make a lot of energy.
The same concept would be found in the design of physics.
A similar energy would be generated by the inside of rocket torus-shaped machines, called tokamaks, a magnetic limiting device.
Reaching Mars and distant planets
According to the scientist behind the design of the concept, the tokamak produces plasmoids, or magnetic bubbles, during its activity.
The plasmoids move at about 20 kilometers per second, and physics thinks there is a lot of stress.
“I’ve been cooking this idea for a while,” Dr. Ebrahimi said. “I had the idea in 2017 while sitting on a deck and thinking about the similarities between car excavation and the high-speed propulsion particles created by the PPPL National Spherical Torus Test (NSTX).”
In computer simulations, Dr. Ebrahimi’s rocket launchers performed better than our current plasma throwers in that it is capable of generating excavations with a velocity of hundreds of kilometers per second.
With that, a trip to Mars would be possible, but more so than Mars, we might reach planets farther inside our solar system.
This may also partially solve the problems of long space travel as astronauts will be in space for a shorter time, but so far, the design remains a concept, although the scientist expects create the prototype.
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