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Cosmic Spacecraft Part 1

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By ZoyaPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
Cosmic Spacecraft Part 1
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The first Make a moving sollar system See nothing static in the Universe. Billions upon billions of stars orbit the interstellar centre point in the Milky Way.

A few, like our sun, are relatively stable, sustaining a distance of around 30,000 light-years from the centre of the galaxy and having completed an orbit each 230 million years.

This isn't a well-choreographed ballet; it was more like a drunken skating rink. The galaxy is now risky due to the chaos.

With stars moving hundreds of kilometres per second, our solar community is changing constantly.

Each factor yielded 2 unique results. In one scenario, it could annihilate our society, reducing at first when cities and natural vistas to ash and irradiated ruins.

However, it has the opposite effect in another. Uranium serves as the fuel in aeronautical technician Robert Zubrin's Nuclear Salt Water Rocket, allowing us to be an interstellar species.

It's a compelling concept, full of optimism and possibilities while adhering to actual science. It does not necessitate the use of novel physics or exotic materials.

However, if we ever discovered that the NSWR could propel us at a fraction of the speed of light. The Nuclear Salt Water Rocket is possibly also the most usable and most severe of all proposed space travel techniques.

A sustained nuclear reaction powers the rocket. A % uranium tetrabromide mixture in water would be used to dissolve reactor-grade uranium.

The depleted uranium in the combination has been enriched to about 20% U-235, resulting in more fissile that can be used in nuclear interactions.

The saltwater component of the spacecraft is uranium salt.

As a result, our propellant is a uranium-saltwater mixture that maintains a strong reaction as it passes through the engine.

Since saltwater can reach a critical mass during certain densities, a self-sustaining chemical reaction happens, causing water to spring up into a plasma plume that offers the rocket's force.

The air intake from this nuclear rocket could be 100x warmer than the air intake from a conventional chemical rocket, which can reach 5,800 ° Fahrenheit during burning.

Temperatures should be even greater for more powerful engines with greater push.

This type of engine, which is both super advantageous and capable of producing large amounts of force, is highly prized but difficult to develop.

As a result, if it is productive, the  Nuclear Salt Water Rocket will be the most powerful rocket engine ever established, with an output power of approximately 700 Gigawatts.

The Nuclear Salt Water Rocket can reach planetary systems in the outer Solar System a couple of times thx to reactor-grade uranium. To put this in perspective, a one-way trip to Saturn using a traditional rocket presently would take anything between 3–7 years.

The Nuclear Salt Water Rocket has an airflow airspeed of around 60,000 m / sec, compared to only 4,500 m / sec for a classical rocket.

Although impressive, it would still be far too slow to fulfil our fantasies of reaching stars and galaxies.

To make the journey at a range of speeds of light, the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket will need to swap reactor level uranium for is something far more powerful. 

A 330-ton spacecraft trying to carry 3,000 tonnes of salt-water fuel could have an airflow speed of 4,700,000 m/s, or just over 3% the speed of light if it had been powered by 90% uranium advancement.

We'd be capable of reaching Alpha Centauri in 120 years if we appear to have done this.

Stay tuned to the article. What will be the reaction in the spacecraft so that the rocket will go out of the orbit of the earth. And with that, the rocket cam is possible to walk on earth.

All such things are shown in the second part. So watch out for the need.

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