Acceleration of projectiles to hypervelocities using a series of imploded annular plasma discharges
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 51 (4) , 1975
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.327913
Abstract
A mass accelerator system using a series of imploded annular plasma pinches to propel projectiles of mass ranging from grams to kilograms up to high velocities is analyzed theoretically. Such a device would have applications ranging from basic materials and impact studies to space‐probe launching and impact fusion.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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