English word senses marked with topical category "Nuclear rocketry"
Parent categories: Nuclear energy, Rocketry, Space access, Energy, Nuclear physics, Technology, Astronautics, Nature, Physics, Quantum mechanics, Applied sciences, Space, Sciences
Total 18 word senses
- Bussard ramjet (Noun) A fusion rocket that gathers fuel from the interstellar medium through attraction via a magnetic field, functioning akin to a regular ramjet.
- Daedalus (Proper name) Project Daedalus: a scheme for an interstellar probe that would use fusion rockets.
- NSWR (Proper name) Abbreviation of New South Wales Government Railways.
- NTR (Noun) Initialism of nuclear-thermal rocket.
- Orion drive (Noun) A theoretical means to propel spacecraft through space, by detonating nuclear bombs behind the spaceship and riding the nuclear explosions that push against the rear mounted pusher plate.
- antimatter rocket (Noun) A proposed form of rocket that would use antimatter as direct or indirect propellant
- fission rocket (Noun) A nuclear-pulse rocket that uses fission-based atomic bombs to supply propulsive force.
- fusion rocket (Noun) a rocket engine that uses nuclear fusion reactions for propulsive force
- fusion rocket (Noun) a spacecraft having a fusion reactor that powers the rocket
- fusion rocket (Noun) a nuclear-pulse rocket that uses thermonuclear bombs to supply propulsive force
- interstellar ramjet (Noun) Synonym for Bussard ramjet
- nuclear rocket (Noun) A rocket where a nuclear process, especially an on-board fission reactor, enables thrust to be produced.
- nuclear-electric rocket (Noun) a rocket with an ion engine powered by a nuclear reactor
- nuclear-pulse rocket (Noun) a rocket that uses the impulse imparted by the detonation of nuclear bombs as the propulsive force to propel the spacecraft
- nuclear-thermal rocket (Noun) a rocket with a thermal gas exhaust engine, whereby the thermal fluid is heated by the nuclear reactor
- nuclear-thermoelectric rocket (Noun) a rocket with a thermal ion engine, whereby the ions are ionized by electricity from a nuclear reactor, and the fluid that is the source of the ions is heated by that nuclear reactor to increase specific impulse.
- torch drive (Noun) A spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion.
- torchship (Noun) A spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
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