What is "bussard"

Usage examples of "bussard".

So Bussard suggested using magnetic fields to pull in gas from an immense volume, hundreds of thousands of kilometers around.

It was thought that the RAIR design could perform two or three times better than the Bussard system, and achieve perhaps 10 or 20 percent of the speed of light.

It was the light of a Bussard ramjet, burning a bare eight miles away.

There is a minimum speed at which a Bussard ramjet will operate, and Phssthpok was not far above it.

The abandoned Bussard ramjet crossed over the sun and curved inward, following a shallow hyperbola which would take it through the plane of the planets.

The faster a Bussard ramjet ship moves, the more fuel it would pick up.

Three great hollows held the components of a Pak-style Bussard ramjet ship.

A directed magnetic field would churn the interstellar plasma as it was guided into a Bussard ramjet.

I might believe they loaded everything on the trailing ship and used the lead ship purely as a stripped Bussard ramjet compressor.

The lead ship is a Bussard ramjet, built to fight, but not too different from ours.

The virusteel deckplating hummed with the distant throb of idling Bussard drives.

They would clear the glittering crystal arms of the field array, then kick on the Bussard drives and jump to near lightspeed for the last leg of the journey.

She passed a board that was covered with quantum equations, another, half-erased already, that held only two clean and concise Bussard drive efficiency calculations, the kind Li had wrestled with in her OCS math courses.

Then the frigate turned tail, fired up its Bussard drives, and vanished into slow time.

Nemesis, the robot ship had discarded her Bussard system upon arrival.