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OwnerBert ZAUDERERinventor
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Disclosed is an interplanetary rocket propulsion to Mars and the Moons of the nearer outer Planets by means of 6000° K temperature, 100 atmosphere pressure, power generation and propulsion systems that utilize a gas cooled nuclear reactor and metal powder combustion, in combination with water wherein dissociation into oxygen to react with certain metals to form on board retained metal oxides, and to heat the hydrogen from dissociated water as well as on-board liquid hydrogen that is seeded with an alkali metal for use in a linear, Faraday magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator that is coaxial with a MHD accelerator for propulsion, wherein water and probable metal sources on planetary bodies would provide rocket fueling by metal oxide reprocessing to metal and for manned permanent life support bases, and for search of high value minerals, gold, silver, aluminum, rare minerals, diamonds, for transport with their lesser gravity back to Earth.
An Earth orbit to a planetary landing, round trip mission with astronauts, in a takeoff of about 500,000 pound weight rocket ship that travels a direct about 75 million kilometer path in about 39 days with thrust from on-board pressurized water that is first heated in a 3000° K pebble bed nuclear reactor followed by complete dissociation into oxygen that reacts with beryllium powder to form beryllium oxide liquid droplets in a slagging combustor that heats dissociated hydrogen from the water to 6000° K which expands in a gas dynamic nozzle that is seeded with an alkali metal from 0.1% to 1% to render the gas electrically conducting as it flows through a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator channel that is co-axially attached to a MHD accelerator that is co-axially attached to an expanding co-axial channel that exhausts the gas into Space.
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