Will your children ride a laser beam into orbit? Would you want them to? - Realistic applications of ablative laser propulsion

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 766, Issue , 2005, Pages 11-22

  Phipps, Claude R ^a  

^a PHOTONIC ASSOCIATES   (United States)

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EID: 33749181389     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1925128     Document Type: Article

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