Reenacting Good Will Hunting

Reenacting Good Will Hunting

Saba Ghole
Istvan and David spent the day calculating how to power and propel a spaceship powered by fusion. The initial idea of using light to propel the spaceship turned out to be not efficient enough to travel to another solar system within the lifetime of a person. They discovered a theoretical limit to the acceleration which an ideal spaceship could achieve with a fusion reactor as its power source. A new idea is to use a Hall-thruster. More to come!