Comment on A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years

i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jonc211@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ship gets lighter as more fuel is destroyed. Ship gets heavier as it gets closer to light speed.

  At 90% of light speed, the ship’s mass would be around 2.3x its rest mass.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the mass increase due to relativistic effects is really really small, significantly smaller than the weight loss due to fuel consumption, which btw is described by the Rocket Equation.

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• seven_phone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is pretty close to the first of April.

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