[Blog] n-Body Politics

[kreios]

Originally Posted by https://nbodypolitics.gitlab.io/2017/11/29/interface_propulsion.html

Last time, we talked about FTL travel. However, to be able to FTL-travel, we still need to leave that pesky gravity well behind - and at roughly 9.4km/s, it’s a doozy. Just looking at today’s rockets, mass fractions and propellant densities make multi-stage rockets necessary. But how does it look like in the future?

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