Defense Intelligence Reference Document Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion(1)

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 1 November 2010, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It surveys propulsion technologies that include chemical, ion, and nuclear fission rockets, fusion schemes, aneutronic fusion, and antimatter propulsion. It also covers radiation shielding and speculates on research needs over the next 30 years for missions from low Earth orbit to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Alpha Centauri. The document concludes that aneutronic fusion promises to be an important mechanism for future space propulsion.

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p. 30 …Corporation A prolific designer and author, Dr. Robert Bussard has explored inertial electrostatic confinement fusion as…
p. 31 …Figure 11. QED Rocket Design by Dr. Robert Bussard and EMC2. 2. ESA Advanced Concepts Team…
p. 37 …Conclusions Among the various aneutronic fusion propulsion technologies developed, Robert Bussard and his colleagues appear to…
p. 44 …This system was proposed by Robert Frisbee and Ulrich Walter and deserves further study. 24 Efficient…
p. 49 …s VASIMR "Foster, Arthur R., and Wright, Robert L., Basic Nuclear Engineering, 4th edition, Allyn and…
p. 50 …24 Frisbee, Robert, H., JPL, "Advanced Propulsion for the XXIst Century," AIAA Paper AIAA-2003-2589…

01 November 2010
ICOD: 20 July 2010
DIA-08-1011-003
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