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ION Drives are relatively new technologys, and have been used for small un-manned missions to comets and stuff, however, there incredibly weak (0.2N thrust from what i have read). Does this teachnology have the potential to accelerate something like a 5 tonne manned ship at 10m/s ?
I have done the mechanics of it, it would need to be about 500 000 times more powerful than it currently is to pull off such a feat!
Are the current drives crude designs? I don't know how NASA and such work you see! when i build something (say a website). I just build it to work, then pile everything else that needed, like design and usability on top of that! Do NASA work like this, thus the technology should become a lot more powerful in the future ?
Thanks!
I have done the mechanics of it, it would need to be about 500 000 times more powerful than it currently is to pull off such a feat!
Are the current drives crude designs? I don't know how NASA and such work you see! when i build something (say a website). I just build it to work, then pile everything else that needed, like design and usability on top of that! Do NASA work like this, thus the technology should become a lot more powerful in the future ?
Thanks!