Laser launching a 5-kg object into low Earth orbit

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4065, Issue , 2000, Pages 502-510

  Phipps, Claude R ^a   Reilly, James P ^a   Campbell, Jonathan W ^a  

^a PHOTONIC ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DRAG; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LAUNCHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SUBSTRATES;

DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLIGHT SIMULATION; IMPULSE GENERATION; LASER LAUNCHING; LOW EARTH ORBIT; MOMENTUM COUPLING; SPECIFIC ABLATION ENERGY; SUPERSONIC FLIGHT;

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 0033683851     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.407373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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