Helios (propulsion system)
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Helios (propulsion system)
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Helios is a design for a spacecraft propulsion system such that small nuclear bombs would be detonated in a chamber roughly 30 feet (9.1 m) in diameter. Water would be injected into the chamber, super-heated by the explosion and expelled for thrust. It was a precursor concept to the Orion project. Like Orion, it would have achieved constant acceleration through rapid "pulsed" operation. This design would have yielded a specific impulse of about 1150 seconds. However, a number of technical proble
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