This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Welcome to The Spaceflight Group! Be sure to follow us on Facebook: The Spaceflight Group as well as on Twitter at: cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. See also this overview on io9 and this earlier article on Gizmodo.
“Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.”Īll of the illustrations, and video of a presentation at the SpaceVision 2013 conference, can be seen here. It could also reach Gliese 581g, an “Earth-like” exoplanet 20 light-years away, in only two years.ĭr. White, such a spaceship should be able to get to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth, in about two weeks Earth-time, with the same amount of time passing inside the craft as well. They have “initiated an interferometer test bed that will try to generate and detect a microscopic instance of a little warp bubble” using an instrument called the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer.”Īccording to Dr. White’s team is trying to find proof of those loopholes. “Working at NASA Eagleworks – a skunkworks operation deep at NASA’s Johnson Space Center – Dr. While the work involved is of course still preliminary, it has already advanced past simply being theoretical. In their opinion, it is not only doable, but perhaps even achievable in the not-too-distant future.ĭiagram of a “warp bubble” generated by the spacecraft, distorting the space-time fabric around it.
White and his colleagues would disagree with that sentiment. Such an endeavour may seem like the stuff of science fiction and nothing more, but Dr. The “warp drive,” which would be needed for this kind of interstellar vessel, is a controversial concept, given that it would be designed to allow a spacecraft to, in a way, travel faster than the speed of light. They are meant to convey a more realistic depiction of what this kind of spacecraft may actually look like.
Warp drive nasa update#
The renderings are an update to the earlier concept, which was based heavily on the original “Star Trek look.” While the two huge outer rings are new, the main spacecraft itself, which sits inside them, is definitely inspired by the original Enterprise. The 3-D illustrations are designed to inspire the artist, Mark Rademaker, said that “he worked with White to create the updated model, which includes a sleek ship nestled at the center of two enormous rings, which create the warp bubble.” 3-D concept illustration of the proposed “Enterprise” warp-drive starship.
0 kommentar(er)
