Photon-rocket fuel for acceleration and braking

ID: photon-rocket-fuel-for-acceleration-and-braking

Accelerating from rest to rapidity and braking to rest requires two separate photon-rocket burns. Their mass ratios multiply, giving . For ideal equal-mass matter–antimatter annihilation, the initial antimatter mass fraction is . Braking fuel must be carried and accelerated during the first burn.

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