Elon Musk teamed up with NASA to develop a new lightspeed engine.
NASA claims that their new space engine can reach 99 percent of the speed of light, and if this were achieved in real life, we would be able to reach Mars 140 million miles away in just 12.5 minutes and land on our closest friend on the moon in minutes, which sounds like a joke, but to a specific end, because NASA has built an engine that uses new technology, mainly to increase speed, because they may want to break the laws of physics.
Space x CEO Elon Musk unveiled his crazy plan to let 1 million people migrate to Mars by 2050, and the success of Musk's plan depends entirely on the perfection of the key technology of starship, when it comes to space he personally suggested working with NASA to develop starship, we human exploration desires drive us to go everywhere to see everything, but this is a big problem, because the space of the universe is too large, even if it travels at the maximum speed allowed by the universe, It will also take years for us to reach our nearest neighboring star.
But now there's a twist, because another human drive is looking for a solution to the problem, and that's what NASA engineer David Burns has been doing, and NASA's Dr. Burns at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, published the idea in a fascinating paper published on NASA's website, where space engines can be used to maintain long-term satellite stations without refueling.
The Ph.D. wrote in his thesis that it can also propel spacecraft across interstellar distances, that an engine that reaches near the speed of light can excite 99% of the speed of light without the need for propellant, which sounds like something in a science fiction movie, but it is incomprehensible, and the paper caused a sensation, and even some headliners insist that the engine may violate physics, but the concept is fascinating, but it will definitely not break physics anytime soon, and it is expected that a lot of work will be required in these theories to be achievable.
Today's rockets, such as those built by NASA and Space Exploration, require a lot of propellant, such as liquid hydrogen, to send people to Mars, and the more difficult it is, the more fuel stored on the spacecraft it gets heavier, the modern propulsion tank is too large to perform interstellar flight, and the spiral engine can solve this problem by using high-tech particle accelerators, as found in the large hadron collider in Europe, using electromagnets recovered around the engine to fire tiny particles at high speed. And launch again, which is very important, it may reach very high levels, it may push things to the limit, but that is the ultimate way to work.
Burns also pointed out the efficiency issue in his speech, adding that his work has not been studied by experts, so we don't know if his math is misunderstood, and of course things can go wrong, but we can really use the basic work to develop such an engine, and what we have is a vision of a sea of stars that we think was a pivotal moment when we look back on the past, so in many ways, if these plans succeed, Musk's Mars colonization program could become a reality.
We are excited about this, with more enthusiasm and innovation in space, and with the development of technology, Starship will be greater than all the rockets before it, which may seem a bit outrageous at this point, but it may also be just a turning point, NASA is currently monitoring Starship through various programs and hopes to be able to start the mission, because they think it is a possible way forward. (The above content is based on the Internet, please look at it rationally)