Launch to space with an electromagnetic railgun

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 295-304

  McNab, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Launch; Railgun; Space; System

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COSTS; EVALUATION; ORBITS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE SHUTTLES; VELOCITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILGUN; MUZZLE VELOCITIES; PAYLOADS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0037235187     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.805923     Document Type: Article

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