AB Space Engine

TL;DR

This paper introduces the AB-Space Engine, a revolutionary propulsion system that transfers energy via plasma cables from ground stations, enabling high thrust and specific impulse without expelling reaction mass.

Contribution

It develops the theory of the AB-Space Engine and demonstrates its potential for high-thrust space propulsion using ground-based energy transfer.

Findings

Can produce thrust of 10 tons or more

Capable of accelerating spacecraft to thousands of km/s

Uses minimal hydrogen for plasma cable creation

Abstract

On 4 January 2007 the author published the article Wireless Transfer of Electricity in Outer Space in http://arxiv.org wherein he offered and researched a new revolutionary method of transferring electric energy in space. In that same article, he offered a new engine which produces a large thrust without throwing away large amounts of reaction mass (unlike the conventional rocket engine). In the current article, the author develops the theory of this kind of impulse engine and computes a sample project which shows the big possibilities opened by this new AB-Space Engine. The AB-Space Engine gets the energy from ground-mounted power; a planet electric station can transfer electricity up to 1000 millions (and more) of kilometers by plasma wires. Author shows that AB-Space Engine can produce thrust of 10 tons (and more). That can accelerate a space ship to some thousands of kilometers/second. AB-Space Engine has a staggering specific impulse owing to the very small mass expended. The AB-Space Engine reacts not by expulsion of its own mass (unlike rocket engine) but against the mass of its planet of origin (located perhaps a thousand of millions of kilometers away) through the magnetic field of its plasma cable. For creating this plasma cable the AB-Space Engine spends only some kg of hydrogen.