The phenomenological basis of Slepian’s 1949 essay on an electromagnetic space drive for spacecraft propulsion is traced to the Maxwell stress tensor and the third term in the Lorentz force. The possibility of exploiting the material properties of various media are discussed as well as a connection to the Casimir stress.
EM stress-tensor space drive
Space technology and applications international forum -1999 ; 1999 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 458 , 1 ; 1027-1032
1999-01-22
6 pages
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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