In the past eight months a new mass driver concept has been explored through calculation and inductance model verification. It retains the linear synchronous principle and freedom from arcs, plasmas or physical contact between the accelerated bucket and accelerator. However, it discards passive magnetic flight and obtains transverse focussing from strong off-axis restoring forces produced by drive coils operating in a pull-only mode. This paper gives the reasoning on which the new concept is based, and applies the concept to a lunar catapult design.
Recent developments in mass drivers
Space manufacturing 4 ; 1981 ; Princeton, NJ
1981-01-01
Miscellaneous
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English
RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN MASS DRIVERS
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