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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Francesco Angrilli, Mariolino De Cecco, Daniele Pavarin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 430-434
Plasma Fueling, Heating, and Current Drive | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963651
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This work, by means of the numerical modeling of a two-stage light gas gun, analyses deterioration parameters and proposes a procedure for diagnosing functional parameters of two-stage light gas guns with high firing frequency. Analyzed parameters are: piston wear and deformation, delay in first-stage valve opening, and piston seize-up. The procedure was developed by means of gas-dynamic numerical modeling. Experimental tests demonstrate that this procedure can be realistically applied.
