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==== Pre-accelerated fuel ==== Achieving start-stop interstellar trip times of less than a human lifetime require mass-ratios of between 1,000 and 1,000,000, even for the nearer stars. This could be achieved by multi-staged vehicles on a vast scale.<ref name="L.D. Jaffe 1963, pp. 49-58">{{cite journal |author1=D.F. Spencer |author2=L.D. Jaffe |title=Feasibility of Interstellar Travel |journal=Astronautica Acta |volume=9 |year=1963 |pages=49β58|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0274312 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204204839/http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0274312 |url-status=live |archive-date=December 4, 2017 }}</ref> Alternatively large linear accelerators could propel fuel to fission propelled space-vehicles, avoiding the limitations of the [[Rocket equation]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Roger X. Lenard |author2=Ronald J. Lipinski |title=Interstellar rendezvous missions employing fission propulsion systems |year=2000 |journal=[[AIP Conference Proceedings]] |volume=504 |pages=1544β1555|doi=10.1063/1.1290979 |bibcode=2000AIPC..504.1544L }}</ref>
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