Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium

Offset your carbon footprint with confidence with Wren--the first 100 people to sign up will have one month of emissions offset for free: In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to possible ship drives, the sky is not the limit. Visit our Website: Join Nebula: Support us on Patreon: Support us on Subscribestar: Facebook Group: Reddit: Twitter: on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Episode’s Audio-only version: Episode’s Narration-only version: Credits: Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium Episode 388, March 30, 2023 Produced & Written by: Isaac Arthur Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Sarah Fowler Arthur Editors: Darius Said David McFarlane Sarah Fowler Arthur Graphics by: Jarred Eagley Jeremy Jozwik Ken York Rapid Thrash Sergio Botero Music Courtesy of: Epidemic Sound Markus Junnikkala, “A Memory of Earth“ Miguel Johsnon, “Strange New World“ Aerium, “Fifth Star of Aldebaran“ ▬ Spaceship Drive Index ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 0:00 Intro 3:12 Alcubierre Drive 4:10 Antimatter Ablated Light Sail 5:06 Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion 6:13 Antimatter Rocket 8:12 Arcjet Rocket 9:15 Bias Drive 10:02 Black Hole Drive 11:23 Bussard Ramjet 14:04 Caplan Thruster 14:39 Chemical Rockets 16:24 Clarketech 17:30 Diametric Drive 18:51 Disjunction Drive 19:31 Electric Solar Wind Sail 21:26 Electrodynamic Tethering 22:59 EM Drive 24:15 Exhaust Velocity 26:03 Field Propulsion 26:34 FTL or Faster Than Light Drives 27:20 Fuel 27:59 Fusion Torch Drive 30:02 Gravitational Dipole 31:31 Gravitic Propulsion 32:58 Hall Effect Thruster 34:46 Hawking Radiation Drive 36:45 Helicon Double-Layer Thruster 37:22 Helios Drive 38:41 Hyperspace Jump Engine or Hyperdrive 40:09 Inertia Reduction Drive 41:39 Ion Drive 43:15 Krasnikov Tube 44:52 Laser Sail 47:21 Magnetic Solar Wind Sail 48:03 Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster 49:41 Matter Beam 51:09 Medusa Drive 51:43 Microwave Electrothermal Thruster 52:57 Negative Mass Propulsion 54:25 Neutrino Rocket 56:08 Nova Drive 57:41 Nuclear Electric Ion Drive 57:11 Nuclear Lightbulb 58:09 Nuclear Pulse Drive 1:00:40 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion 1:02:19 Orion Drive 1:02:40 Oxidizer 1:03:10 Photon Rocket 1:05:48 Pitch Drive 1:06:38 Propellant 1:07:26 Pulsed Inductive Thruster 1:08:41 Quantum Vacuum Thruster 1:11:22 Quasar Drive 1:13:06 Reactionless Drives 1:14:44 Resistojet 1:15:36 Reusable Rocket 1:16:57 Rocket Equation 1:19:04 Shkadov Thruster 1:19:55 Solar Moth 1:21:29 Solar Sail 1:22:58 Specific Impulse 1:24:18 Statite 1:26:24 Teleportation 1:27:25 Thrust 1:28:30 Torch Drive (Matter Converter) 1:29:35 VASIMR 1:30:41 Warp Drive 1:32:26 Wormhole Drive