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What's the Isp of this method?
by maverick_iceman 10y ago
What's the Isp of this method?
- Symmetry 10y agoThe first paper mentions 19,400 seconds at one point; versus 450 for hydrolox and 3100 for Dawn's ion drive. I did a blog posts on the theoretical limit on this sort of drive a while ago, using propellant velocity instead of ISP. http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2015/04/rockets-vi-very-nuclear-rockets.html http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2015/04/rockets-vi-v...