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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.
Y. Tatematsu, T. Saito, M. Ishikawa, H. Abe, Y. Imaizumi, K. Nishida, E. Yokoyama, Y. Kiwamoto, I. Katanuma, K. Yatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 179-182
Topical Lectures | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963436
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Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating by injection of two microwave beams with different k// has been investigated in the GAMMA 10 tandem mirror. In experiments, measurements of an effective temperature of an end loss electron flux and an end plate potential indicate that, for the same total incident power, heating efficiency of two beam heating is a little worse than that for one beam heating. Numerical analysis of electron energy gain by two beam ECRH gives the result of a little worse heating efficiency agreeing with that of the measurements, and the result is able to be explained as spatially sequential heating due to Doppler-shifted resonance gap for two beam heating.