Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ...
by simonh on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:46PM
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My apologies, I meant Daedalus. I can’t find any references to the Orion project you describe, though there have been several real spacecraft and related systems by that name.
Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ...
by marcosdumay on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:25PM
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You can start at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Basically nothing of it was actually built (nuclear propulsion wasn't an well accepted idea - for good reasons that won't matter as soon as we start building in space). There was just some very small scale prototypes.
In comparison, project Daedalus moved much faster.
The Orion project was designed for sending a city-sized space ship to Alpha Centaury in ~100 years.
The hard part seems to be how to build a city-sized ship, not how to move it.