List of Propulsion Systems

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Moon launched

• Chemical Propellants
  (see In Situ Propellant Production)
• Eddy Current Brake to Orbit
• Electromagnetic Railgun
• Hydrogen Gas Gun
• Lunar Electrothermal Oxygen Rocket
• Lunar Rocket-sled to Orbit
• Mass Driver
  
• Maglev launcher -- a la Gerard O'Neill and/or Heinlein
• Ring launch or line launch
• Tether
  
• Wheel rolling at orbital speed

Earth launched

• ATO, Airship To Orbit as per JP Aerospace
  
• Conventional Chemical -- (links to Astronautix might be useful here)
  
• Inverted-aerobraking
  
• Momentum from GTO
  
• Orion (CEV)
• PDE, Pulse Detonation Engine
  
• Rockoon 'Rockets launched from balloons'
  
• SCRAMJet
  
• Space Elevator
  

Interplanetary Transfer

• Conventional Chemical -- (links to Astronautix might be useful here)
• Harenobraking
• Ion propulsion
• Inverted-aerobraking
• Momentum from GTO
• Nuclear -- Orion.
• Solar sail
• Tether
• VASIMR
• VASIMR lunar tug

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