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- From: tchua@soda.berkeley.edu (Terence Chua)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?
- Date: 22 Jan 93 04:21:36
- Organization: QMW Department of Laws
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- In-reply-to: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov's message of 21 Jan 93 11:04:38 -0600
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- I seem to remember that the novel mentioned the use of a "Sakharov
- Drive" - it sounded like a pulsed-fusion engine to me... I also
- remember them mentioning propellant. I'm not sure if it was in
- reference to their own engines or the ones on the Chinese ship Tsien,
- who used Europa as a re-fueling point to gather water as extra
- propellant.
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