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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
B. Temple, O. Barnouin, G. H. Miley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 846-851
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29450
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The Plasma Focus at the University of Illinois will be used to study the potential use of a Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) for space propulsion. This will require the development of a DPF with a gas injection system. The ultimate goal is to measure the thrust from a gas-injected DPF fueled with D-3He. Preliminary studies on the effects of an imposed magnetic field on the pinch stability, the design of the gas injection system, and on selection of thrust measurement diagnostics are reported here.
