SCIENTISTS HAVE INVENTED A NEW PROPULSION SYSTEM THAT COULD TRANSPORT HUMANS TO MARS IN 45 DAYS

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For NASA and many space researchers across the world, Mars has been a long-shot aim, but they believe the Red Planet could one day be a prospective human colony. According to NASA's estimations, the theoretical journey time for people to reach Mars is roughly 9 months, with a minimum distance between Earth and Mars of 54.6 million kilometres. Engineers in Canada, on the other hand, have developed a revolutionary laser-propulsion system that claims to cut journey time in half to just 45 days.

According to a study, humans can travel to Mars in 45 days.

McGill University academics and engineers claim to have developed a revolutionary laser-propulsion-based spacecraft that may transport passengers from Earth to Mars in just over six weeks. The researchers propose a directed-energy propulsion system based on Earth that would jet-shot a spacecraft from Earth to Mars in the allotted time.

The researchers claim that by using the method, they will be able to accelerate a spaceship very swiftly near Earth. The spacecraft is propelled deeper into space by laser beams that travel at a fraction of the speed of light. The spacecraft will reach Mars in the next month as a result of the acceleration.

"Using quick transit to Mars as a design goal, the applicability of directed energy to spacecraft mission design is investigated. "Continued advances in photonic laser technology are expected to enable an Earth-based laser array of unparalleled size (10 m diameter) and power (100 MW)," according to a study article published by McGill University researchers.

The primary spacecraft will arrive on Mars in 45 days, while the rest of the spacecraft will return to Earth to be recycled for the next flight.

"A phased-array laser of this scale and with atmospheric compensation might transmit laser power to spacecraft in cislunar orbit, where the incident laser would be focussed into a hydrogen heating chamber through an inflatable reflector." The hydrogen propellant is subsequently expelled through a nozzle, resulting in 3000s specific impulses. "Through a burn-back manoeuvre to return the propulsion unit while still within range of the Earth-based laser, the architecture is proved to be instantaneously reusable," it continues.

For those who don't know, nuclear fission-powered rockets can achieve this shortened trip time, but they come with radiation dangers. This problem looks to be solved by this new system.

Although this appears to be a viable strategy for reaching Mars or exploring other deep-space regions of our cosmos, there is currently no spacecraft to test this notion.

While Elon Musk believes that humans will be able to visit Mars within the next six years, NASA and China plan to transport humans to Mars by the 2030s. As a result, we may expect researchers and engineers to concentrate on developing and building a spaceship to support the laser-based directed-energy propulsion system.

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