Not content to rest on this sole accomplishment, the 84-year-old Powell now has grander ambitions for his maglev breakthrough. In 2001, he teamed up with George Maise, an aeronautical engineer and ...

If the entire Startram tube is at sea level, on exiting the tube the spacecraft will suddenly be subjected to several hundred g's due to atmospheric drag - rather like hitting a brick wall. To reduce ...

A proposed 'space train' could make travel beyond Earth's atmosphere far cheaper - and allow four million people a year to travel to space in just 20 years time. Startram - designed by by one of the ...

Space travel is a costly and inefficient process. Not only does it take a large amount of fuel to send the lightest payload into orbit(the Space Shuttle used over one million pounds of solid ...

This is Startram, a proposed launch system that would use magnetic levitation trains, a 1000-mile tunnel, and a superconducting cable to reach low Earth orbit. Amazingly, we already have the ...

Startram is a mass driver, which means it requires neither rockets nor propellant to launch payload into space. Mass drivers are not a new concept. Early mass drivers were envisioned in fiction in the ...

Rocket propulsion is no longer the only way to get into space. Other existing technology like magnetic levitation can be utilized, and that is what the Startram orbital launch system maximizes for ...

Question 1: How did the Startram concept originate? Gordon Danby and I invented the superconducting Maglev transportation system in 1966 when we were working for Brookhaven National Laboratory. Based ...

The inventor of the MagLev train is working on a way of combining magnetic levitation technology with that of Elon Musk's hyperloop to create a way of firing satellites into space without the need for ...

A revolutionary 'space train' could make relatively cheap holidays in space a reality for millions of people within the next 20 years. Using similar technology to China's 'maglev' trains, which ...

While stuck in traffic in 1961, James Powell, a young researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory came up with the idea of using powerful magnets to lift and propel massive passenger-carrying cars.