Magnetically increased Thrust For Lightcraft?

[Spacescifi]

Just wondering if magnetic fields could enhance the thrust of a lightcraft?

Air is mostly nonreative with magnetic fields, until it is ionized anyway.

 

I even thought it could enable efficient SSTO's....so long a fleet of laser zepplins was around to keep the distance not too far to keep zapping away on the lightcraft engines. A propellant feed would increase thrust too.

 

Provided a super strong magnetic field on the light engine.. like a scifi level of 50 Tesla...could that not help a lightcraft to conserve rocket propellant while relying on laser induced air plasma and magnetic fields to clear most of the atmosphere?

Say... 80 kilometers up?

Edited April 6, 2020 by Spacescifi

[Shpaget]

What configuration are you thinking about?

Magnets aren't magic, you know?

[Spacescifi]

12 minutes ago, Shpaget said:

What configuration are you thinking about?

Magnets aren't magic, you know?

 

I am fishing so I am not sure.

 

Could we somehow combine minimag orion (without the bomb) and lightcraft emission tech?

[sevenperforce]

7 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

Just wondering if magnetic fields could enhance the thrust of a lightcraft?

Magnetic fields ARE the thrust of a light craft.

Motion of a charged particle produces magnetic fields, period. We call it "electromagnetic" because they are a single phenomenon.

[magnemoe]

There is an idea for an solar sail who only uses charged particles from the sun rater than photons. Yes its less trust / m^2 but you only need an electrical field, the benefit is that you only need an long spool of wire who is much lighter than the fabric for an square kilometer sail. 
Unfornatly in practice the wire has to be superconducting.