Railgun experiment (HYPAC) at ISAS

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:5538182

Yamori, A; Yanagisawa, M; Sabo, K; Kawashima, N ^[1]; Furukawa, T; Teii, S ^[2]

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1. Inst. of Space and Astronautical Science, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa (JP)
2. Musashi Inst. of Tech., Tokyo (Japan)

Rail gun is developed in ISAS for the study of the interaction of meteorites with planetary surface and the interaction of space debris. The authors of this paper attained an velocity constantly higher than 5 km/sec with a maximum of 6 km/sec. The importance of a good confinement of plasma behind the projectile to prevent a leakage of plasma ahead of it is shown to realize a high velocity. An effective acceleration using an aluminum rail is also shown.

• OSTI ID: 5538182
• Report Number(s): CONF-9004136-; CODEN: IEMGA
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 27:1; Conference: 5. IEEE symposium on electromagnetic launcher technology, Destin, FL (United States), 1-5 Apr 1990; ISSN 0018-9464
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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