92% Light Speed!! Antimatter Drive Closer Than You Might Think!!

Is antimatter propulsion best left to science fiction writers? Absolutely not! Antimatter exists in our Solar System, and in larger quantities than anyone thought possible twenty years ago. And if antimatter can be harvested, that changes everything!
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[MechaEnigma]

Appreciate your time spent on this. Hoping for more.

[MrEd]

The reason it is important to subscribe and get the subscription number up to 100, 000 is then the Angry Astronaut makes enough money to continue to make these space videos to the quality he wants.

[stephen_]

Jordan, I simply love the way you cover these more niche subjects. Thanks for making + sharing.

[personzorz]

Remember the Kzinti lesson: any technology powerful enough to be used as an interstellar drive is automatically a weapon of mass destruction

[MrGoesBoom]

For everything else I dislike about the Avatar franchise, I can't help but love their hard science design for the Venture Star and ships like it, love that opening image.

[friendlyone]

So many new concepts heard for the first time! In over seventy years, had not heard this application to harvest & use antimatter. Thank you!!!!
The ramjet idea finally made useful!

[scottre]

I remember one of the problems in my electromagnetic fields class (back in the 90's) was to design a magnetic bottle to efficiently contain positrons. Well established engineering.

[ottovonnekpunch]

I'm re-visting Larry Nivens/Jerry Pournell's "Mote in God's Eye" and the alien's use of laser-powered light sails. Your description of an anti-matter sail is next level!

[TimothyAlbiez-UnhingedSpace]

Love your work buddy. Seeing your drive to 100k subscribers has me ready to get back into the content game.

[ChilapaOfTheAmazons]

Not all antimatter is the same: the stuff floating in space are positrons, which are cheap to make anyway. The antimatter sail and other proposals for propulsion instead need antiprotons, which are nowhere to be found in nature and ridiculously expensive.

There are practical near-term proposals for better and cheaper space propulsion: from a simple propellant depot in orbit (that SpaceX is already working on), to laser sails and to nuclear propulsion (either thermal or electric).

But antimatter is not practical in the near term.

[michaelpettersson]

The real problem with antimatter fueled starships are how to massproduce the antimatter fuel. In this case it is about how to collect the stuff.

[jimhofoss]

I can’t imagine trying to evade or hitting something at 92% the speed of light..

[g.f.martianshipyards]

These things slowing down was my favourite moment in the way of water.

[ThompPL]

Nice Job putting this out there for everyone to know !!

[CtrlOptDel]

Anyone interested in the Valkyrie spacecraft should get hold of the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel “Dyson Sphere” (a sequel to to TNG episode “Relics”) coauthored by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski, it includes an afterword that explains the details of how the spacecraft would work.

[mikeviard]

The subject is very interisting, and sensible also. This will drive to such human crazyness, you will see, carry on Angry one.

[whattha_huh]

Wow. Big future advancements regarding antimatter will be traced back to that discovery.

[deanlawson]

Wow! What a concept! If you really stop to consider this carefully, there are ALWAYS thunderstorms around the tropics of our planet, ALL the time, every day!! You could conceivably gather continuing massive amounts of antimatter right here at home with some kind of carefully engineered and constructed satellites designed to do just that.
Great video - Thanks for this!

[Gman-]

How would ships travelling at such high velocities detect let alone avoid potential rocks/asteroids/etc in their path? I realize there can be some level of shielding using advanced materials against micro sized space dust/whatever, but a larger rock, not even all that large, like basketball size, would blow a ship apart if it's travelling at currently achievable speeds, much less approaching lightspeed.

[SQLMonger]

Excellent presentation Jordan! Your skills as a speaker/narrator have only gotten better and better.