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The HX laser thruster always seemed like a great idea, but too radical for anyone to actually try. Keep all that expensive and heavy energy generation on the ground by using LASERs to vaporise the propellent on the rocket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion
The HX laser thruster always seemed like a great idea, but too radical for anyone to actually try. Keep all that expensive and heavy energy generation on the ground by using LASERs to vaporise the propellent on the rocket.
Real Engineering made a video about it recently