.. laser-ablation/gas-nozzle propulsion could propel rockets to orbit - Laser Focus ..
Yurii Rezunkov from the Institute of Optoelectronic Instrument Engineering (Sosnovyi Bor, Russia) and Alexander Schmidt from the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute (Saint Petersburg, Russia) have developed a scheme to integrate a laser-ablation propulsion system with the gas nozzles of a rocket.. 1 Combining the two systems, the researchers found, can increase the speed of the gas flow out of ..