| Autor: |
Amer Siddique, Jalal B. Javedani, Paul Humm, Brett Casey, George H. Miley, Susan DelMedico, Blair P. Bromley, Erik Kirstein, John Demora |
| Rok vydání: |
1995 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
AIP Conference Proceedings. |
| ISSN: |
0094-243X |
| DOI: |
10.1063/1.47151 |
| Popis: |
This paper presents the results of a conceptual design for a crewed interplanetary spacecraft powered by a dense plasma focus thermonuclear fusion device. The conceptual design has found that a spacecraft with a gross takeoff mass of 1800 tonnes from Low Earth Orbit can transport a payload of 100 tonnes to Mars and back to Earth with a total transit time of only 180 days. With the plasma focus fusion and thruster device, a specific impulse over 13500 seconds, and a jet power over 1000 MW are possible. The conceptual design makes use of technologies which are developed and under development. A modular high temperature gas cooled reactor is used to provide the electricity to power the plasma focus, which increases the power available to a plasma thruster by a factor of 29. Liquid Droplet Radiators are used to remove waste heat. The key areas that future research must address are the dense plasma focus thermonuclear fusion device and high energy storage by capacitors. The paper describes the conceptual desig... |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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