Elon Musk Starship and Super Heavy
Starship and Super Heavy are the biggest, most important pieces of Elon Musk'sgrand plan for SpaceX, his private spaceflight company. Musk has repeatedly stressed that he founded SpaceX back in…
Propulsion, physics, dynamics.
Megastructures E04 – Rotating Habitats
In this fourth installment of the series we take a lengthy look at Rotating Habitats, large space stations that simulate gravity via spin and can replicate Earth-like environments.Contributed by Tom…
O’Neill Cylinders
A look at O'Neill Cylinders, immense space habitats. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Far larger than any conventional Space Station, O'Neill Cylinders could potentially serve as as entire city-states or nature…
Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel by Edward Belbruno This is a great book that describes low fuel low thrust orbits…
Oberth effect
In astronautics, a powered flyby, or Oberth maneuver, is a maneuver in which a spacecraft falls into a gravitational well, and then accelerates when its fall reaches maximum speed. The…
Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation, describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle of a rocket: a device that can apply acceleration to itself (a…