Another cathode engine, the X-ray rocket motor

 

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Another cathode engine, the X-ray rocket motor

The X-ray engine is one of the hypothetical transportation systems for interstellar engines. The capacity of this type of engine is the reason because the engine pushes and pulls at the same time. The idea of the X-ray engine is similar to other cathode-ray based rocket systems. 

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The diagram of the X-ray engine

1) Anode 

2) Electron flow

3) Electron cannon 

4) X-ray radiation. 

There are two versions of the X-ray engine. 

1) The cathode system, what is mounted internally in the spacecraft. The electrons would shoot to an anode, and then that thing will send the X-rays backward. And that makes the engine acting as a photon rocket. 

But the anode is working like the sail in sailing ships. When electrons are hitting it, it would increase the thrust, because electrons are pulling the craft forward. 

2) The external particle accelerators. The electrons that are shot from the particle accelerators can pull to the metal plate, which is creating the X-rays by loading the positive electric load.

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But in this model, the electrons would hit the cathode, which is acting like a rag. And the electrons are pushing the craft forward. The thing that would give the extra thrust is the X-ray radiation that goes backward of the system. This kind of engine would open the road to the solar system. There are two models of this engine. 

The engine what bases the cathode ray, what based the system, what is mount in the craft itself. The recoil of the electrons must minimize when they are leaving the cathode tube, and hit the anode. The second version is the system, where the cathode rays are shot from the particle accelerators, and then they would pull to the layer that gives the X-rays by turning the plate into an anode. So if the plate has a positive electric load, that would pull the electrons to it, and that will send the X-rays backward.