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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.
Robert P. Keatch, Brian Lawrenson, F. Barrie Lewis, Tony C. Tyrrell
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 2 | March 1999 | Pages 101-105
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963910
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The current techniques for fabricating planar laser targets and their components depend heavily on very accurate computer-controlled lathes, diamond turning and milling processes. The development of these processes has formed a science in themself, with novel techniques being developed continuously to keep up with the experimentalist's requirements. Unfortunately, with these techniques, the element of mass-production is lost because each component is made individually. Hence, processes which produce multiple components simultaneously become attractive, resulting in a reduction in both cost and time. Within the microelectronics industry, mass-production is essential and the processes adopted to achieve this have been developed and optimised for microfabrication.