A means of propulsion is one of the most crucial components of starships and spacecraft. Without it, species would be unable to traverse the vast interstellar distances between planets and star systems, making trade and commerce impossible.

Propulsion technologies, systems and methods

Slower-than-light

• Hyper-impulse drive
• Impulse drive
  • Avidyne engine
  • Impulse thruster
• Internal combustion engine
• Ion drive
• Rocket
  • Booster rocket
  • Chemical rocket
• Solar sail
• Thruster
  • Attitude control thruster
  • Control thruster
  • Guidance thruster
  • Landing thruster
  • Microfusion thruster
  • Polarity thruster
  • Reaction control thruster
  • Sub-impulse thruster
• Nuclear reactor
  • Fusion propulsion
  • Nuclear fission reactor

Faster-than-light

• Coaxial warp drive
• Displacement wave
• Graviton catapult
  • Null space
• Ion propulsion
• Lang cycle fusion engine
• Quantum slipstream drive
• Repulsor beam
• Soliton wave
• Spatial rift
  • Spatial flexure
• Spatial trajector
• Subspace corridor
• Subspace distortion
• Subspace vortex
• Tachyon eddy
• Transwarp drive
  • Transwarp conduit
• Warp drive
  • Class 7 warp drive
  • Class 9 warp drive
  • S-2 graf unit
  • Subspace resonator
  • Tricyclic plasma drive
  • Warp five engine
  • Warp three engine
  • Yoyodyne pulse fusion
• Wormhole
  • Intermittent cyclical vortex
  • Möbius Inversion
  • Spatial vortex

External link

• Propulsion at Wikipedia
• Spacecraft propulsion at Wikipedia