PV and Magnetic TARS Instead of Passive Solar TARS

A Rotating Probe Launcher Alternative to TARS

Shortly before publishing my article on David Kipping’s TARS concept (Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun, I received an email from Centauri Dreams associate editor Alex Tolley. Alex had come across TARS and offered his thoughts on how to improve the concept for greater efficiency. The publication of my original piece has launched a number of comments that have also probed some of these areas, so I want to go ahead and present Alex’…

PV and Magnetic TARS Instead of Passive Solar TARS

The very low Energy Efficiency seems to make it not worthwhile. It is important to have station keeping like the Quasite system but this can also be dynamically maintained. The low efficiency makes the dynamo storage idea via TARS not worthwhile. The TARS (Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun) launching catapult concept can be ...