Progress on hypervelocity railgun research for launch to space

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 381-388

  McNab, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

High velocity; Othermal; Railgun; Space

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; DISTRIBUTED POWER; HIGH VELOCITY; OTHERMAL; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SPACE; TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY; UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 57849167529     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2008601     Document Type: Article

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