The power beaming route to space
Article Abstract:
High-powered microwave antennas can be used to send beams of energy out into space where orbiting satellites and space stations can use them as power sources. Such energy beams may also be utilized to propel ultralight space craft into orbit and beyond.
Publication Name: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1059-2113
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Escape from LEO: an option for the 1990s
Article Abstract:
A proposal outlining the design of a cheap interplanetary space vehicle is evaluated. The proposal envisions the use of a huge magnetic sail to propel a Russian Salyut space station with a two or three man crew out towards the near-Earth asteroids.
Publication Name: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1059-2113
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Voyage to the Sun's gravity focus: the first starship?
Article Abstract:
A space probe positioned 550 Astronomical Units from the Sun could use the Sun's gravity focus to amplify electromagnetic signals from heavenly bodies occulted by the Sun. Designs for such a probe are discussed.
Publication Name: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1059-2113
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Reporter protected in shield law's first test. Confidential sources & information: a practical guide to the reporter's privilege in the fifty states and D.C
- Abstracts: How it feels to be without a face: race and the reorientation of sympathy in the 1890s. Dislocating literature: the novel and the Gretna Green romance, 1770-1850
- Abstracts: The third generation of genre science fiction. Adventures in paraliterature. "Talking." (Samuel R. Delany's 'Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics: A Collection of Written Interviews)
- Abstracts: Impulse or genre or neither? Is something new happening in science fiction? Phallic mothers and monster queers
- Abstracts: The tragic emotions. Body and ritual in Farquhar. Drama and ritual once again: notes toward a revival of tragic theory