Re:Voyager 1 spots new region at the edge of the Solar System
by Jach on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @02:53AM
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Considering c is 63,198 AU/yr, and Voyager 1's only about 123 AU away, there's still a lot of room left for future engineers in increasing the speed of our devices to very quickly surpass it. Will we achieve even a hundredth of c within the next 100 years? Depends.
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Re:Voyager 1 spots new region at the edge of the Solar System
by _b8r0 on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @03:30AM
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Just wondering, is there any technology we've seen actually used today that could produce a hundredth of c within the next 100 years? Would this be something we could see with ion propulsion for example?
Re:Voyager 1 spots new region at the edge of the Solar System
by madaxe on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @05:37AM
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Not used, but planned. Nuclear propulsion. No real limit on speed, apart from C, although as you go farther/faster you need REALLY big ships to carry enough fuel. c.f. project Orion.