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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.
Hoon-Kyun Na, Dong-Cheol Seo, Hee-Jin Choi, Myeun Kwon
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 237-240
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963450
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Five line integrated spectra are obtained from Hanbit mirror plasma using optical chords installed in the horizontal direction of central cell chamber.
In this work, we describe the spectroscopic method to obtain the local spectra in the radial direction by applying the deconvolution method to the five line integrated spectra. Among several fitting methods, the deconvolution fitting is well known as the most effective one.[1]
From these, the local intensity profiles and ion temperature are obtained. In order to compensate for the instrumental broadening of spectrometer, a slit function obtained from the low pressure mercury line 253.65 nm is used. The C III 229.68 nm line from the Hanbit central cell plasma is selected as sample data. We applied the deconvolution fitting method using a slit function to eliminate the instrumental broadening.
