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The ion motor and spaceflight


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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The ion motor is interesting equipment, what is planned to use in the space flight. One of the most interesting ion-motor types is the thing, what is called as: "plasma-ion motor". This type of ion motor uses actually iron stream for giving the punch for the rocket and in one version of interplanetary space flight the ion rocket would use the dust of iron ore, what would be heated in extreme high temperature by using electric arc, and then the system would use magnetic accelerators to push that iron stream backward. The secret of ion motors is that those systems can use any kind of ions for creating the punch, and in many theories the punch, what iron motor gives is very soft.

Ion accelerating systems would use only grams of ions for giving the power to the spacecraft, and the accelerating those spacecraft would take years. In normal theories, the ion rocket would be assembled in the orbiter, where the parts of the rocket would shoot by using traditional rockets. And then the ion motor would start to operate, and that motor can use any kind of ions. But if we would make the ion rocket, what would use electric arcs to vaporize iron, would that rocket shoot from the seas. In this scenario, the rocket would first use the water as the propellant, what takes the rocket out of the atmosphere.

The electric arc would replace the combustion in the rockets combustion chamber. And then the tanks would be filled by using the iron ore, what would vaporize by using a nuclear reactor. Then that iron steam would be driven backward by using the particle accelerator. This system can use any ions, what has the same polar capacity with iron, and that means that the system can use any material in the universe as the propellant. The fascinating idea of the ion motors is to use the metal, what is found from the asteroid belt as the propellant.

And the only thing, what is important is that those ions, what propellant creates would have similar polarity. But when we are thinking about ion cannons, what are actually the modified ion motors, those weapons would need only the ions, what have two different polarities. In this case, if the ions would have plus capacity, and at the same time, would shoot the electrons by the particle accelerators, what have two lines, what are one inside another, would the minus mark electrons keep the plus mark ions in the same beam, what makes possible to use ions as the weapon.

The ion cannons are very devastating because those beams would pass even the strong wall, and when they would stop, they start to release their energy. And that makes possible to shoot the targets thru the wall, and then the ions will be stopped by using the magnetic field. This capacity makes possible to destroy nuclear reactors without harming the protective building, and that could limit the radioactive fallout.

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