Documents / Report
This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 11 March 2010, was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It argues that spaceships powered by deuterium thermonuclear reactions could be built with current science and technology. The paper covers ignition by GeV proton beams, magnetic insulation, the Super Marx generator and conjectured chemical superexplosives, and it concludes that such craft could make manned exploration of the entire solar system possible.
UNCLASSIFIED/ ,/ Figure 17. Inertial Confinement Fast-Ignition Configuration References [l] F. Winterberg, Phys. Rev. 174, 212 (1968). [2] F. Winterberg, Raumfahrtforschung 15, 208-217 (1971). [3] Project Daedalus, A. Bond, A.R.Martin et al., J. British Interplanetary Society, Supplement, 1978. [4] R. Lewis, K. Meyer, G. Smith, S. Howe, http://www.engr. psu .edu/antimatter/papers/ AIM Star_99. pdf. [5] G. Dyson, Project Orion, The True story of The Atomic Spaceship, Henry and Holt Company, New York, 2002. [6] H. Oberth, Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen, R. Oldenbourg, Berlin 1923. [7] K. Clusius and K. Starke, Z. Naturforsch. 4a, 549 (1949). [SJ F. Winterberg, J. Fusion Energy 2, 377 (1982). 30 UNCLASSIFIED/ /f81il 8ffl@Itllt ""I! one I
Not linked to a story yet.
Report, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 37 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.