VASIMR based spaceship for heliosphere

[EarthlingX]

Here's a couple of updates from Jakes sources:
(Megawatt Class VASIMR Plasma Rocket Cluster by 2013)
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/10/megawa ... ocket.html

Hyperion generator with 27 MWe/7t = 3,6 MWe/t, which is almost four times better, than i assumed:
(VASIMR, Uranium Hydride Reactor, Direct Conversion of Heat or Radiation to Electricity - update)
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/10/vasimr ... irect.html

Here is another approach to a waste heat problem:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2007/10/thermo ... rucks.html

Thread with calculators:
Relativity Calculator

 

[EarthlingX]

Here is a certainly much more realistic calculation and plan from Ad Astra:
Human Transportation to Mars

SHE-1 transit time is probably somewhere between.

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