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'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test (www.space.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by Delta_V@lemmy.world to c/space@mander.xyz

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..."Once you have super-conducting technology available in space, you can then create very strong magnetic fields and you can use them for various use cases," he said. "You can accelerate things in space very fast or change the trajectory of a satellite completely without fuel."...

"When we go to space, we get hurt by radiation, and these superconducting magnets can create umbrellas of magnetic fields around the spacecraft to protect the interior," said Arshavsky. "So we can shield people in space from that radiation."...

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[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Is there a limit to the amount of thrust that these superconducting magnets could generate in Earth's magnetic field? I read a hypothesis that the UAPs that have been observed to accelerate without any propellent are using superconductors in this way.

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A magnet that strong would be easily detected by human technology

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Don't UFOs often come with a "my stuff started going haywire" type of thing? Are we monitoring the atmosphere for transient localized magnetic anomalies?

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm pretty sure weather services and the military measure stuff like that. If UAPs were as common as the believers think, there would have been actual evidence by now.

[–] giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

it makes the most sense, right?