Defense Intelligence Reference Document Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion (2)

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This Defense Intelligence Agency reference document, dated 1 November 2010, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2010 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It covers fusion plasma physics, confinement methods, and propulsion concepts that use aneutronic fuels such as hydrogen and boron-11. It concludes that such thrusters may soon replace satellite ion thrusters. It also finds that they will not be practical beyond the solar system without breakthrough propulsion physics.

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p. 12 …The lasers either impact the pellet simultaneously from multiple symmetrically arranged directions or illuminate the inner…
p. 22 …45 mN/kW superior to the advanced HCT thrusters. The addition of a 150-kWe ion…
p. 26 …The Advanced Concepts and High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasma Physics (HEDLPP) programs, which support plasma confinement…
p. 28 …funded advanced space propulsion studies through Marshall Space Flight Center. These studies included the application of…
p. 32 …Recent advances in high-temperature superconductors are driven by the sensitivity of semiconductor quantum interference device…
p. 36 …Watson, "On the inertial-electrostatic confinement of a plasma," Phys. Fluids, 2, 239, 1959. 2 Farnsworth…

01 November 2010
ICOD: 20 July 2010
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