Flights of a laser-powered lightcraft during laser beam hand-off experiments

36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Mead Jr , Franklin B ^a   Squires, Stephen ^b   Beairsto, Chris ^b   Thurston, Mike ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Applied Technology Test   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ENGINES; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH ENERGY LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LASER MIRRORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; ROCKET NOZZLES; ROCKETS; SATELLITES; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

AIR BREATHING ENGINES; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY; HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION; HIGH-ENERGY LASER SYSTEMS; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORIES; MICROWAVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 84896456945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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