Acceleration of a suborbital payload using an electromagnetic railgun

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 480-485

  Lehmann, P ^a   Reck, B ^a   Vo, M D ^a   Behrens, J ^b  

^a FRENCH GERMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS   (France)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Earth to space launch; Meteorological probe; Railgun

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ENERGY STORAGE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); ORBITS; RAIL GUNS; SOUNDING ROCKETS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; METEOROLOGICAL PROBES; PULSE FORMING NETWORKS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 33846251220     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.887666     Document Type: Article

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