Comments on: How Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) will Revolutionize Space Travel ../index.html Astronomy for Everyone Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Stephanie Thomas ../index.html#comment-194940 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:55:15 +0000 https://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=2000#comment-194940 In reply to Donald A. Sime.

Donald, yes – for electric propulsion, your payload capacity is proportional to the total power, so if you add more drives, you can bring more payload, but the trip time stays the same if the propellant velocity stays the same.

]]> By: Donald A. Sime ../index.html#comment-194872 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:29:36 +0000 https://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=2000#comment-194872 It appears that your duration values are based on propellant velocity, would multiple drives increase payload capacity?
Ex. A three drive cluster would provide the same velocity for approximately three times the payload of a single drive?

]]> By: Zain Husain ../index.html#comment-192227 Mon, 03 Jul 2017 23:33:37 +0000 https://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=2000#comment-192227 In reply to Stephanie Thomas.

That is amazing! Congrats! Appreciate all the hard work you and your team are doing.

]]> By: Stephanie Thomas ../index.html#comment-192032 Mon, 15 May 2017 16:58:26 +0000 https://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=2000#comment-192032 You may be interested to know that NASA has now awarded us a Phase II to continue study and design work on the Direct Fusion Drive!

http://www.psatellite.com/nasa-niac-phase-ii-selected/

]]> By: Curtis Graczyk ../index.html#comment-190914 Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:43:40 +0000 https://www.brownspacemans.local/?p=2000#comment-190914 Could this lead to the fabled Bussard RamJet from the Larry Niven universe, a serious consideration.

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