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2025 2

  1. The Laser Revolution Part II: Ground, Sea and Grid
  2. The Laser Revolution Part I: Megawatt beams to the skies

2023 2

  1. The Lofstrom Loop: A Bridge to Space
  2. Riding Sunbeams with Solar Sails

2022 2

  1. Hypervelocity Tether Rockets
  2. Fusion without Fissiles: Superbombs and Wilderness Orion

2021 3

  1. Nuclear Conversion for Starship
  2. Fusion Highways in Space
  3. Moto-Orion: Mechanized Nuclear Pulse Propulsion

2020 2

  1. Nuclear Photon Rockets: Flashlights to the Stars
  2. Space Tethers: Stringing up the Solar System

2019 9

  1. Hypervelocity Macron Accelerators
  2. The Expanse's Epstein Drive
  3. NTER: Nuclear Thermal-Electric Rocket
  4. How to Live on Other Planets: Uranus
  5. Thermal Decomposition of CO2 with Nuclear Heat
  6. Starship Lite: from rapid Interplanetary to Interstellar
  7. Actively Cooled Armor: from Helium to Liquid Tin.
  8. Nuclear Reactor Lasers: from Fission to Photon
  9. Cold, Laser-Coupled Particle Beams

2018 6

  1. Particle Beams in Space
  2. Inter-Orbital Kinetic Energy Exchanges: Part I
  3. Lasers, Mirrors and Star Pyramids
  4. Permanent and Perfect Stealth in Space
  5. Piracy in Space is Possible Part II: Armed Merchants and Pirate Patrols
  6. Piracy in Space is Possible Part I: Dastardly DeltaV and Stealth Steamers

2017 20

  1. Advanced Solar Energy in Space: Part II
  2. Advanced Solar Energy in Space: Part I
  3. Liquid Rhenium Solar Thermal Rocket
  4. SpaceX SFR: Small Falcon Rocket
  5. Anti-Orbit Laser Submarines
  6. Low Earth Orbit Atmospheric Scoops
  7. How to Live on Other Planets: Saturn
  8. Liquid Droplet Radiator Inter-Reflection
  9. All the Radiators
  10. Physical Data Security
  11. What's it made of? Part II: Supra-local Supermaterials
  12. Nuclear EFP and HEAT
  13. What's it made of? Part I: Locally available materials
  14. Interstellar Trade is Possible Part III: Threats, Strategy and Evolution
  15. Interstellar Trade Is Possible Part II: Travel
  16. Interstellar Trade Is Possible
  17. Laser Launch into Orbit
  18. How to Live on Other Planets: Jupiter
  19. Boosted Orbital Tether - a fishing line in space!
  20. Expansion-cooled, Curved-nozzle stealth rocket

2016 34

  1. An Artificially Managed Society
  2. How to Live on Other Planets: Mars
  3. The Hydrogen Steamer: Stealth Spaceship Concept
  4. How to live on Other Planets: Venus
  5. How to live on Other Planets: Mercury
  6. The solution to long range space combat
  7. Space Warship Design IV: Complete Examples
  8. Space Warship Design III: Final Considerations
  9. Space Warship Design II: Guns and Shields
  10. Space Warship Design: A Process
  11. You are wrong about nanotechnology
  12. A Constellation of Warships II
  13. A Constellation of Warships
  14. Gun Fusion: Two barrels to the stars
  15. The Nuclear Spear: Casaba Howitzer
  16. Saving the planet with alcohol: An Ethanol Energy Economy
  17. Why go?
  18. Battleships of the Future
  19. LWW: Laser Weapon Web
  20. Stealth in Space is Possible IV
  21. Stealth in Space is Possible III
  22. Stealth in Space is Possible II
  23. Stealth in Space is Possible
  24. The Big List of Propulsion Failures III
  25. The Big List of Propulsion Failures II
  26. The Big List of Propulsion Failures
  27. Innovating in armor
  28. The Future of Air War
  29. Electric Cannons and Kinetic Impactors II
  30. Electric Cannons and Kinetic Impactors
  31. The Laser Problem III
  32. The Laser Problem II
  33. The Laser Problem
  34. What is Tough Science Fiction?