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Kimmo Huosionmaa
https://futurism.com/space-
Above this text is the link for the article, what is written about space trains. The space trains are the fictional spacecraft, what may someday travel in our solar system, and they would not ever stop to the planets orbiter. The needed power of the trip, what would take mankind to Mars in two days those spaceships would get from gravity sling for accelerating their speed. In this scenario, the spaceship would send to the solar system by using conventional rockets. And when it would obtain planets like Mars, then the planet’s gravity would increase the speed of that spacecraft.
When the spacecraft would turn to the Sun, the gravity field of the Sun would be used to increase the speed, and then the trajectory would target to the Jupiter and Saturn. The good thing of that vehicle is that it would use only the gravity field of the planets to increase the speed, and first, the speed might be quite slow, but after a couple of years, this spacecraft would be used to transfer the people and equipment across the Solar system. In the scenario, the space train would accelerate without people couple of years in the interplanetary space. When the speed would be high enough the people would move in that capsule, what might offer the space, where are houses and artificial gravity. This would be done by using centrifugal force to make artificial gravity field.
The idea of this spacecraft would be that the cargo would pack to the modules, what would be delivered to the Solar system. And when something wanted to send back to Earth, the module would fly to the spacecraft, and then it would dock to that spacecraft. If this kind of space trains would sometimes be possible it can be used to conquer all solar system. This kind of things is very simple solutions because there is no need for nuclear rockets. And the need for propellant is quite small, the rockets are needed only for changing course of that spacecraft.The electricity for those life support systems is of course made by using nuclear reactors. Also series of RTG:s (Radio Thermal Generator) can be used in smaller scale vehicles.
Sources:
https://futurism.com/space- train-concept-could-get- humans-to-mars-in-two-days-if- only-it-would-work/
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