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• TITLE: A Space-Flight Ship Travelling by a Plasma Rocket Engine from the Earth Ground to the Moon

  AUTHORS: Mitsuaki Nagata

  KEYWORDS: Plasma Fuel Rocket, Space-Flight Ship to the Moon, Ion-Velocity Booster

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.14 No.12, November 13, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Since a thrust of an ion rocket engine is much weaker than the one of a chemical fuel engine, nowadays, ion engines are used mainly in spaces where gravities are very weak. Here, as a powerful plasma rocket to make a heavy ship get out from the gravity-sphere of the earth without relying on an atomic power rocket, an ion-velocity booster is investigated. It is a main challenge how to protect the engine wall from the melting due to collisions of ions which grow into high-energy particles.