A plasma railgun experiment addressing launch-to-space issues

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 194-197

  Stefan, F ^b   McNab, I R ^a,b   Parker, J V ^c   Alonzo, M ^b   Klatt, T ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasma railgun

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; PLASMAS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CERAMIC SIDEWALLS; HYPERVELOCITY; PLASMA RAILGUNS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 33846249507     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.887451     Document Type: Article

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