Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium

In order to reach the stars we will need vastly more powerful engines for our spacecraft than modern rockets offer. Fortunately, when it comes to possible ship drives, the sky is not the limit.

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Credits:
Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium
Episode 388, March 30, 2023
Produced & Written by: Isaac Arthur

Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur
Sarah Fowler Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
David McFarlane
Sarah Fowler Arthur

Graphics by:
Jarred Eagley
Jeremy Jozwik
Ken York
Rapid Thrash
Sergio Botero

Music Courtesy of:

▬ Spaceship Drive Index ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Intro
3:12 Alcubierre Drive
4:10 Antimatter Ablated Light Sail
5:06 Antimatter Catalyzed Fusion
6:13 Antimatter Rocket
8:12 Arcjet Rocket
9:15 Bias Drive
10:02 Black Hole Drive
11:23 Bussard Ramjet
14:04 Caplan Thruster
14:39 Chemical Rockets
16:24 Clarketech
17:30 Diametric Drive
18:51 Disjunction Drive
19:31 Electric Solar Wind Sail
21:26 Electrodynamic Tethering
22:59 EM Drive
24:15 Exhaust Velocity
26:03 Field Propulsion
26:34 FTL or Faster Than Light Drives
27:20 Fuel
27:59 Fusion Torch Drive
30:02 Gravitational Dipole
31:31 Gravitic Propulsion
32:58 Hall Effect Thruster
34:46 Hawking Radiation Drive
36:45 Helicon Double-Layer Thruster
37:22 Helios Drive
38:41 Hyperspace Jump Engine or Hyperdrive
40:09 Inertia Reduction Drive
41:39 Ion Drive
43:15 Krasnikov Tube
44:52 Laser Sail
47:21 Magnetic Solar Wind Sail
48:03 Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster
49:41 Matter Beam
51:09 Medusa Drive
51:43 Microwave Electrothermal Thruster
52:57 Negative Mass Propulsion
54:25 Neutrino Rocket
56:08 Nova Drive
57:41 Nuclear Electric Ion Drive
57:11 Nuclear Lightbulb
58:09 Nuclear Pulse Drive
1:00:40 Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
1:02:19 Orion Drive
1:02:40 Oxidizer
1:03:10 Photon Rocket
1:05:48 Pitch Drive
1:06:38 Propellant
1:07:26 Pulsed Inductive Thruster
1:08:41 Quantum Vacuum Thruster
1:11:22 Quasar Drive
1:13:06 Reactionless Drives
1:14:44 Resistojet
1:15:36 Reusable Rocket
1:16:57 Rocket Equation
1:19:04 Shkadov Thruster
1:19:55 Solar Moth
1:21:29 Solar Sail
1:22:58 Specific Impulse
1:24:18 Statite
1:26:24 Teleportation
1:27:25 Thrust
1:28:30 Torch Drive (Matter Converter)
1:29:35 VASIMR
1:30:41 Warp Drive
1:32:26 Wormhole Drive

[jeffjohnson]

Don't you dare tell me not to consume all of your video at once. Maybe I like being bombarded with a whole bunch of different theories at once. You don't know my life. And thank you for your content😊

[Bibibosh]

Your wife voice reminds me of a space RTS game I used to play back in 2005+ . I can't remember the name, but she has an excellent voice for all space things.

[nickifiresnow]

Truly an amazing space propulsion reference and one that will remain re-watchable for many years to come. Thank you all so much for putting this together ❤️

[OlympusMonsTutorials]

OMG Dude! I´m a games designer and having a definitive list of things is key. This is not just a great video, its an amazing resource!

[Synith]

I love this and the megastructure compendium. Thank you for continuing to inspire and educate myself and many others.

[willjones]

Supernova And welcome to SFIA where we use scales order of magnitude more then you've ever seen in a movie!

[Chad_Thundercock]

It's neat to see Sarah getting in on the action.
The couple that creates great content together, stays together, as they say.

[UpliftedCapybara]

I’m really hoping for an update to the Fermi Paradox Compendium like this one!

[cadosian]

Easily my new favorite channel. I will binge these videos until I stop playing Stellaris. Which Can be considered to be until the heat death of the universe. Love that game. And love this channel 😘

[gwgui]

Now I know what I'll do for the next couple of hours, heh. Great stuff as always

Speaking of vehicles, I'd like to suggest a video idea concerning land vehicle design for hazardous/extreme environments, like an icy planet or a desert one. Thanks!

[entropy]

Everything so well bookmarked. you are awesome, Isaac.

[ultimoguerreiro]

Oh boy, how I love the longer episodes. Thanks Isaac, love from a Brazilian nerd.

[NoticerOfficial]

So nice to wake from your Hyperbunk to a new compendium episode.

Really eases the sickness from extended hyper sleep

[D_Winds]

Love your hours of space content Isaac!

[sgtbrown]

Thanks for another masterpiece of thought-provoking wonders! Cheers all from Mcmurdo station Antarctica 🐧

[ilkoderez]

I love the format, it seems like this could be cut and accessed as a real encyclopedia. Good stuff!

[JohnBoen]

I love the compendium episodes! I wake up early on Thursday to listen.

But this is horrible- I don't have time to listen to it all in one sitting!

A 97 minute drink from Issac's firehose of futurism.





Fire hose

[iainballas]

"Make sure to grab a full-course buffet and a few pitchers" is more appropriate for this. Thanks, Isaac!

[patrickmchargue]

This is a great compilation, so I'm saving this. The narration was good, and your wife helping out amplified the points of the video well.

[palfers]

Great stuff, Isaac.
Don't forget David "Cool Worlds" Kipping's Halo Drive either (although technically more a manoeuvre than a drive).