未来星际旅行的十条途径(国外英语资料).docVIP

未来星际旅行的十条途径(国外英语资料) Ten ways of interstellar travel in the future JUST, DO, IT In 1961, Yuri Gagarin (Yuri Gagarin) became the first human to enter outer space. 8 years later, Neil Armstrong (Neil Armstrong) and Batz Aidrin (Buzz Aldrin) successfully landed on the surface of the moon. This is the longest distance man has ever visited. In addition to budget issues and political will, the biggest obstacle is that our current space flight technology - chemical fuel rockets - can not be used for long distances in deep space flight. Although we have been able to send robotic probes to the outer solar system, it will take several years to complete the journey. Its simply impossible to visit other stars. Appollo No. 10 is the fastest manned space vehicle to date, with a top speed of 39895 kilometers per hour. Even if we fly at this rate, it will take 120 thousand years to reach our nearest neighbor (4.2 light-years away). So if we really want to make deep space interstellar travel and travel to neighboring planets and more distant places, new technologies will be needed. Below you will see 10 of the most interesting new techniques. The feasibility of these techniques is very different. Some of them, if we really want to, may come true tomorrow, while others may not be possible at all. (1) ion propulsion Conventional rockets push forward by jetting back gas. Ion thrusters use the same principle, but unlike jet high temperature gases, they eject charged particles (ions). The resulting thrust is very small, but the key point is that the ion thruster requires less fuel than conventional rockets for generating the same thrust. If they work steadily for a long time, they can eventually speed up the aircraft to a very high speed. Some probes have been powered by ion thrusters, such as Japans Falcon probe and the European Space Agencys SMART-1 moon probe, and the technology is being perfected. One of the most promising is the variable ratio impulse magnetic plasma rocket (VASIMR)