plume capture

Good News Mars and Company is the physics proof for all propulsion systems that do not loose propellant mass.

Published on 11/19/2015 - reformatted for online publishing on 01/19/2016.  Part 4 released 01/19/2017.

Momentum Physics and the use of propellers to provide thrust and propulsion in space, a Physics brief

Plume capture and Xenon Propellant Capture

Heavy xenon gas propellant capture from a Solar Ion or other Radiation Ion space craft is possible.  To create propulsion, heavy xenon gas ions are transferred across a nozzle geometry and zapped with a charge that accelerates the xenon ion across a plasma arc which then neutralizes the ion.