photon rocket

The paper introducing the photon rocket.

The reflector, or the sail, as it is also called, is the principal and most fragile part of a photon rocket.

A photon rocket is a hypothetical rocket that uses thrust from emitted photons for its propulsion.

The speed an ideal photon rocket will reach in the absence of external forces, depends on the ratio of its initial and final mass:

Robinson-Trautman null dusts include the Kinnersley-Walker photon rocket solutions, which include the Vaidya null dust, which includes the Schwarzschild vacuum.

The photon thrust will be sufficient to more than counterbalance the pull of the sun's gravity, allowing the photon rocket to maintain a heliocentric velocity of 30 km/s in interplanetary space upon escaping the Earth's gravitational field.

In 1969 he published the famous Kinnersley photon rocket, an exact null dust solution to the Einstein field equation which represents a massive object which accelerates from the recoil of massless radiation which it emits.

CHAPTER ONE THE CARGO PHOTON ROCKET "TAHMASIB" 1.

An antimatter-matter powered photon rocket would (disregarding the shielding) obtain the maximum c specific impulse; for this reason, an antimatter-matter annihilation powered photon rocket could potentially be used for interstellar spaceflight.