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Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu

If it can push a spacecraft, engineers are trying to harness it to fly through space

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MAGNETIC SAIL A magnetic field interacts with plasma particles in the solar wind + Can travel through the solar system without much propellant or power. – Probably too slow for human transport; hard to test on Earth.
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