Methods Antimatter rockets can be divided into three types of application: those that directly use the products of antimatter annihilation for propulsion, those that heat a working fluid or an intermediate material which is then used for propulsion, and those that heat a working fluid or an intermediate material to generate electricity for some form of electric spacecraft propulsion system. The propulsion concepts that employ these mechanisms generally fall into four categories: solid core, gaseous core, plasma core, and beamed core configurations. The alternatives to direct antimatter annihilation propulsion offer the possibility of feasible vehicles with, in some cases, vastly smaller amounts of antimatter but require a lot more matter propellant.Fusion Reactions and Matter-Antimatter Annihilation for Space Propulsion Claude Deutsch, 13 July 2005 Then there are hybrid solutions using antimatter to catalyze fission/fusion reactions for propulsion.
Methods Antimatter rockets can be divided into three types of application those that directly use the products of antimatter annihilation for propulsion those that heat a working fluid or an intermediate material which is then used for propulsion and those that heat a working fluid or an intermediate material to generate electricity for some form of electric spacecraft propulsion system The propulsion concepts that employ these mechanisms generally fall into four categories solid core gaseous core plasma core and beamed core configurations The alternatives to direct antimatter annihilation propulsion offer the possibility of feasible vehicles with in some cases vastly smaller amounts of antimatter but require a lot more matter propellantFusion Reactions and Matter-Antimatter Annihilation for Space Propulsion Claude Deutsch 13 July 2005 Then there are hybrid solutions using antimatter to catalyze fission/fusion reactions for propulsion