Advanced Power Sources for Space Missions

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Size: 156 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1989

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Committee on Advanced Space Based High Power Technologies, Energy Engineering Board, National Research Council
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"Star Wars"--as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is dubbed--will require reliable sources of immense amounts of energy to power such advanced weapons as lasers and particle beams. Are such power sources available? This study says no, not yet--and points the ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Executive Summary	1-5	(skim)
1. Introduction	6-8	(skim)
2. Space Power Requirements and Selection Criteria	9-23	(skim)
3. Space Power Systems Options and Selection Constraints	24-51	(skim)
4. Needed Technological Advances in Space Power Subsystems to Meet SDI Requirements	52-67	(skim)
5. Approaches Toward Achieving Advances in Critical Power Technologies	68-85	(skim)
6. Commentaries on the SDI Power Program	86-100	(skim)
References	101-103	(skim)
Appendix A: Glossary of Abbreviations	104-105	(skim)
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches	106-114	(skim)
Appendix C: Study Chronology	115-120	(skim)
Appendix D: Possible Impacts of Effluents from SDI Systems	121-128	(skim)
Appendix E: Compilation of Study Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations	129-134	(skim)
Index	135-140	(skim)

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"Star Wars"--as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is dubbed--will require reliable sources of immense amounts of energy to power such advanced weapons as lasers and particle beams. Are such power sources available? This study says no, not yet--and points the way toward the kind of energy research and development that is needed to power SDI.
Advanced Power Sources for Space Missions presents a comprehensive and objective view of SDI's unprecedented power requirements and the opportunities we have to meet them in a cost-effective manner.

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