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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Positron Aerospace Propulsion
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This unclassified Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency is dated 2 March 2010. It was produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. The report reviews work on using positrons as aerospace fuel. It covers air-breathing turbojet and ramjet engines, unmanned aircraft, missiles, single-stage reusable vehicles, positron rockets and a crewed Mars mission, along with how positrons could be produced and stored. It concludes that a first positron-powered flight around the globe could be possible within 10 years.
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- p. 4 …Conceptual 110 Watt Positron Closed Cycle Generator Based on the
NASA Glenn Research Center Stirling Radioisotope…
- p. 5 …Eglin Air Force Base, Florida,
and the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, Atlanta, Georgia. This paper…
- p. 13 …18
SINGLE-STAGE REUSABLE VEHICLE (SSRV}
The Department of Defense, NASA, and the aerospace industry are…
- p. 23 …Conceptual 110-Watt Positron Closed-Cycle Generator Based on the NASA Glenn Research
Center Stirling Radioisotope…
- p. 24 …The NASA Mars Exploration Study Team studied such
systems in 1997-98.49, so
Conclusions reached…
- p. 28 …A 2000 NASA study 63 on which this author collaborated placed the cost
of antiprotons at…
- p. 31 …Silica aerogel is a promising material that
was developed by NASA because of its
extremely low…
- p. 33 …of Space", The Advanced Space Propulsion Workshop, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville,
AL, April 2…
- p. 34 …The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars
Exploration Study Team," NASA Special Publication 6107, JSC (1997…
- p. 35 …The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars
Exploration Study Team," NASA Special Publication 6107, JSC (1997…
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