The Propellantless Spacecraft Technologies That Could Help Us Reach the Stars

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Soyuz FG Rocket Launch From Gagarin’s Start Baikonur CosmodromeFuture spacecraft may travel farther by drawing momentum from planets, sunlight, and the solar wind instead of onboard fuel. Every conventional rocket faces the same problem: it must carry the material that propels it. Since Konstantin Tsiolkovsky described the rocket equation in 1903, spacecraft have burned fuel and expelled it backward to move forward under [...]
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