Recent developments in mass driversIn 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.
Document ID
19820052084
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Oneill, G. K. (Princeton University Princeton, NJ, United States)