• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    3 年前

    It’s a lot less fiction than many other fictional spaceships. It’s not an FTL drive or anything, it’s just an ordinary rocket engine with an extremely high Thrust-Weight ratio

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      3 年前

      And that thrust to weight and high specific impulse is because it’s using fusion pellet design. Coincidentally the same strategy which recently got energy gain from the national laboratory.