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davedx on July 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (2016)

I actually ran numbers on electrosails to decelerate, they do not work, at all - many orders of magnitude. Email me for spreadsheet. Pulsed nuclear propulsion is the only tech we have that works

Robotbeat on July 8, 2021 [–]

Electrosails aren’t as good for this as magnetosails; I just included electrosails for completeness.

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