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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.
Claude Deutsch, Patrice Fromy, Xavier Garbet, Gilles Maynard
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 2 | February 1988 | Pages 362-374
Technical Paper | Heavy-Ion Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25111
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A few basic atomic problems are associated with the stopping of nonrelativistic pointlike ions in dense and hot matter. First, the free electron contribution is considered, taken in random phase approximation with an exact dynamic dielectric function, valid at any temperature. Stopping power and straggling can thus be obtained for any projectile velocity. The temperature dependence is of special relevance for a projectile energy <5 MeV/amu. The mean excitation energies of bound electrons are then considered and found to be smaller than in cold matter. The projectile effective charge in hot targets is also investigated. Experiments involving a heavy-ion beam produced by a standard accelerator and interacting with an independently produced coronal plasma are described.