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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.
Glenn R. Magelssen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 2 | February 1988 | Pages 339-347
Technical Paper | Heavy-Ion Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25108
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Scaling relationships among the relevant reactor, driver, and target parameters and gain for three heavy-ion target concepts are presented. These relations include scaling laws for the required peak power and ion energy, the fuel fractional burnup, and the fraction of energy released in charged particles and X rays as a function of the target radius, the hydrodynamic coupling efficiency, and the incident ion energy. The impact of polarized deuterium-tritium fuel on the scaling relations is also shown, and the direct-drive concept is examined to illustrate some of the ideas used in developing a hydrodynamic efficiency model.