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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.
Z. W. Bell, J. K. Dickens, D. C. Larson, J. H. Todd
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 1 | May 1983 | Pages 12-32
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17454
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Interactions of neutrons with the iron isotope 57Fe have been studied by measuring gamma-ray production cross sections for incident neutron energies between 0.16 and 21 MeV. Neutrons produced by the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator impinged on a metallic iron sample enriched to 93% in the isotope 57Fe. The resulting gamma radiation was detected using a 100-cm3 Ge(Li) detector placed at 125 deg with respect to the neutron beam line. A complete description of the experiment is given. Absolute gamma-ray production cross sections were measured for gamma rays corresponding to the 57Fe(n,n′ γ)57Fe, 57Fe(n,γ)58Fe, 57Fe(n,α)54Cr, 57Fe(n,2n)56Fe, and 57Fe(n,p)57Mn reactions. The cross section for the 57Fe(n,2n)56Fe reaction exceeds 1 b for En ∼ 15 MeV, and the cross section for the 57Fe(n,p)57Mn reaction exceeds 0.2 b for En ∼ 9 MeV. A new excited state is postulated for 57Mn to account for observed data. Several new transitions are reported for decay of levels in 57Fe. Measured cross sections are compared with data obtained from the current ENDF/B evaluation.
