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From: [e-mail] (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Orion drive in vacuum -- how?
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 20:28:17 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (James P. Goltz) writes:
>  Would this work?  I can't see the EM radiation impelling very much
>momentum (especially given the mass of the pusher plate), and it seems
>to me you're going to get more momentum transfer throwing the bombs
>out the back of the ship than you get from detonating them once
>they're there.

The Orion concept as actually proposed (as opposed to the way it has been
somewhat misrepresented in some fiction) included wrapping a thick layer
of reaction mass -- probably plastic of some sort -- around each bomb.
The bomb vaporizes the reaction mass, and it's that which transfers
momentum to the pusher plate.
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