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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.
H. B. Störk, J. Winter, J. Ihde, H. G. Esser, H. Reimer, M. Freisinger
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 54-60
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A151
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The TOroidal MAgnetized System (TOMAS) is a simple magnetized torus dedicated to the investigation of wall conditioning methods by microwave-induced plasmas. In the TOMAS facility, an electron cyclotron resonance plasma is produced by microwaves at a frequency of 2.45 GHz and the corresponding resonant magnetic field of 87.6 mT. The facility and the first operational experience of film deposition by means of methane plasmas are described.
