Documents / Report
This unclassified Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency is dated 2 March 2010. It was produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. The report reviews work on using positrons as aerospace fuel. It covers air-breathing turbojet and ramjet engines, unmanned aircraft, missiles, single-stage reusable vehicles, positron rockets and a crewed Mars mission, along with how positrons could be produced and stored. It concludes that a first positron-powered flight around the globe could be possible within 10 years.
“The Advance”5 pages
UNCLASSIFIED/ }F81il 8FFll!ltllt ~81!!! SHLY LN2 or Ne (a) (b) (c) H2 P<»itronTrap Pb ENCASED e+ (d) Figure 12. Fluid Systems. (a) One-fluid system of LN7 or Ne propellant; (b) Two-fluid system of LH, and LXe; (c) Two-fluid flow-through system with LH2 at higher mass flow rates than LXe; and (d) One-fluid LH2 system with lead encapsulated Ps (courtesy Positronics Research LLC) 36 15 UNCLASSIFIED/ ;«F81il 8FFIIIAI!: 1!181! &••1::Y
Not linked to a story yet.
Report, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 35 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.