SÅ's Spaceship Links


Hull Building
Space Foam
Discrete Lattice Material Vacuum Airship
Vacuum Balloon -- a 350-Year-Old Dream

Nanostructures
Polyynes
Linear acetylenic carbon
Nanocellulose
7-incredible-uses-for-nanocellulose
Nano-Diamonoid
Introduction to Diamond Mechanosynthesis (DMS)

Aerogel
Aerogel.org, Welcome to Open Source Aerogel

also see: 3D Links: Spaceships


Power
Antimatter Acquisition: Harvesting in Space


Solar Medium Sails
Solar Sails
Union pour la Promotion de la Propulsion Photonique
Solar Sail Propulsion: Reality VS Fiction with Les Johnson
Solar Sails are Even Better Than You Think
Sailing the Light, Bill Nye


Atmospheric => Mesosphere => Orbital Space
Power Transmission for Propulsion
Microwave power transmission using a flexible rectenna for microwave-powered aerial vehicles
Thermal Rockets
Kevin Parkin | Inference Engines, Thermal Rockets, and Lightsails
Drones
DIY Drones
The GFS-UAV project, A Coanda effect flying saucer
Spherical Indoor Coand ̆a Effect Drone (SpICED): A Spherical Blimp sUAS for Safe Indoor Use
BeagleBone Blue 220mm Quadcopter
Ardupilot
Ramjet
Sabre Engine, MEMs cooled intake @Mach 5.5
Lightcraft
Lightcraft
Solarmoth
Mesosphere
Controlled levitation of nanostructured thin films for sun-powered near-space flight
New Type of Laser Levitation Could Help Us Explore the Mesosphere

Beanstalk
Spores
Self-Assembly
HAPS
JP Aerospace
Can Giant Airships Accelerate to Orbit (JP Aerospace's Idea)?
Nuts 'n Volts, L Paul Verhage


Sublight Reaction Engines
Ion Drives
Using Ion Propulsion in Model Aircraft
Wikipedia: Ion thruster
Advanced Electric Propulsion
Lifters
Wikipedia: Ionocraft
µ Ionocraft
The Ionocraft: Flying Microrobots With No Moving Parts, ieee
The Ionocraft: Flying Microrobots With No Moving Parts, pdf
Toward Controlled Flight of the Ionocraft: A Flying Microrobot Using Electrohydrodynamic Thrust With Onboard Sensing and No Moving Part
Vortices
Face the Wind Storm Series
Atmospheric Vortex Engine
flyback circuits
A Transistor Driven Flyback Transformer Page
Simple High Voltage Generator: Low Voltage DC In, up to 30 KV Out

Helicon & Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster Links
David Darling: Helicon Thrusters
Wikipedia: Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster

Metallic Hydrogen
Metallic Hydrogen: The Most Powerful Rocket Fuel Yet to Exist


Comm
Earth - Moon System Links
GBPPR Frequency Transverters for Wireless LAN Devices
Frequency Conversion Hardware
Homebrew RF Test Equipment and Software


FTL Transmission
UCR Physics FAQ, FTL
Tachyonic Neutrinos
Lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations, wikipedia
=> XeV - ZeV+ Neutrinos
SETI At Planck Energy: When Particle Physicists Become Cosmic Engineers
Ehlich 3+3 Model
A review of searches for evidence of tachyons, Robert Ehrlich (2022)
Tachyonic Neutrinos: From the Cosmic Rays to Extragalactic Supernovae, Robert Ehrlich (2023)

Quantum Tunneling
Quantum Tunneling, UCR Page
Tunneling through the Lightspeed Barrier by John G. Cramer, Published in the December-1995 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine
Faster Than Light By Wil McCarthy, includes description of Bell's FTL transmission at 4.7c
Wave Phenomena
Experimental demonstration of a new radiation mechanism: emission by an oscillating, accelerated, superluminal polarization current
Quantum Tunneling


Anti-Gravity
Higher Dimensional Super Gravity
Geon

Gravitoelectromagnetic (GEM)
Key Effects of General Relativity Confirmed, GP-B: Accuracy: Geodetic Effect: 0.28%; Frame-dragging: 19%
GP-B Gyro #1 Polhode Motion Animations
Dipole Gravity, Gravitomagnetism

Super Gravity
1260: Phenomenology of Antigravity in N = 2, 8 Supergravity


FTL Drives
Relativity and FTL Travel FAQ Homepage, physicsguy
UCR Physics FAQ, FTL
NASA Forums: Propellantless Field Propulsion and application
Wolfram on FTL
Progress In Revolutionary Propulsion Physics, M. G. Millis; Tau Zero Foundation, Centauri Dreams

µBHs (Micro Black Holes)
Quantum Black Holes

Magentic Colliders
Circular
Earthtech, Advanced Propulsion, Collider Insert
Linear

Plasma Acceleration Colliders
Laser Acceleration toward PeV Feeling the Texture of Vacuum
Status and Problems of Plasma Accelerators
exotic acceleration

Space-Time Dilation (Warp Drive - Shell Based Configurtations)
NASA: Warp Drive, When?
Warp Drive: A Cottage Industry Emerges, Centauri Dreams
New Book: Warp Speed, Maybe, Wired Article on Frontiers of Propulsion Science
Modern Relativity, A text book tutorial on Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity
Lenz Envelopes
Erik W. Lentz's Personal Website Blog - on warp drive, dark matter, and more
Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives
The Lentz Soliton FTL Drive
Breaking the Warp Barrier: Hyper-Fast Solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory
Alcubierre Envelopes
The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity., Miguel Alcubierre
Negative Energy Wormholes and Warp Drive, Scientific American, January 2000
Alcubierre Modifications
Warp Drive With Zero Expansion, Jose Natario
A `warp drive' with more reasonable total energy requirements, Chris Van Den Broeck
The unphysical nature of Warp Drive

Space-Time Tunneling (Hyperdrive - Reaction Based Configurations)
FTL Photons, Mid-December-1990 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine
The Possibility of FTL Space Travel by using the Quantum Tunneling Effect through the Light Barrier
Planck
Six easy roads to the Planck scale
Can experiment access Planck-scale physics?
Shedding Light on Quantum Gravity: "Probing Planck-scale physics with quantum optics"
Probing Planck-scale physics with quantum optics
Planck Accelerators
SETI At Planck Energy: When Particle Physicists Become Cosmic Engineers
Casimir
Warp Drive: A New Approach
Observation of the Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Circuit
A Gedanken spacecraft that operates using the quantum vacuum (Dynamic Casimir effect), G. Jordan Maclay and Robert. L. Forward
Heim-Dröscher Ring
Antigravity propulsion and relativistic hyperdrive, Felber
SciForums.com : Technology : Architecture & Engineering
Extended Heim Theory, Physics of Spacetime, and Field Propulsion
60 Tesla Superconducting Magnets Would Allow Tests of Gravitational Field Propulsion
C6+
Milky Way Explorer, a set of multiwavelength maps of our galaxy as seen from the Earth.


Gravity Wave Research
Hulse-Taylor Binary
Lecture 11: Gravitational Waves
Physics FAQ: Gravitational Radiation
High Performance Computing and Communication for Space
gravwave.com, Robert Baker's group
High Performance Computing and Communication for Space Paper List
Design of a Quantum Source of High-Frequency Gravitational Waves, Giorgio Fontana

Gravitons & Gravity Waves
Graviton -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
Ripples in SpaceTime, uiuc
Gravitational Waves -- from Eric Weisstein's Encyclopedia of Scientific Books
Ripples on a Cosmic Sea: The Search for Gravitational Waves (Frontiers of Science (Reading, Mass.).)
Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves

Probes
Bar
EXPLORER, The EXPLORER Gravitational Wave Antenna
AURIGA
ALLEGRO
NIOBE
spherical (bar)
MINIGRAIL

    EM/laser
The Fermilab Holometer
LIGO, Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory
VIRGO
GEO 600
TAMA 300
LISA, (Hannover) (NASA) (ESA), launch date 2012

Dr. Robert Forward's curvature gradient detector, Physics Forums


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