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Dynamic Soaring as a Means to Exceed the Solar Wind Speed
Mathias N. Larrouturou, Andrew J. Higgins, Jeffrey K. Greason
A technique by which a spacecraft can interact with flows of ionized gas in space (the solar wind or interstellar medium) to be accelerated to velocities greater than the wind velo…
Structural Stability of a Lightsail for Laser-Driven Interstellar Flight
Dan-Cornelius Savu, Andrew J. Higgins
The structural stability of a lightsail under the laser flux necessary for interstellar flight is studied analytically and numerically. A sinusoidal perturbation is introduced into…
An Explosively Driven Launcher Capable of 10 km/s Projectile Velocities
Justin Huneault, Jason Loiseau, Myles T. Hildebrand +1
Launching large (> 1 g) well-characterized projectiles to velocities beyond 10 km/s is of interest for a number of scientific fields but is beyond the reach of current hypervelocit…
Wind--Pellet Shear Sailing
Jeffrey K. Greason, Dmytro Yakymenko, Mathias N. Larrouturou +1
A propulsion concept in which a spacecraft interacts with high-velocity pellets and the interstellar medium is proposed. The pellets are slower than the spacecraft and are accelera…
Design of a rapid transit to Mars mission using laser-thermal propulsion
Emmanuel Duplay, Zhuo Fan Bao, Sebastian Rodriguez Rosero +2
The application of directed energy to spacecraft mission design is explored using rapid transit to Mars as the design objective. An Earth-based laser array of unprecedented size (1…
Effect of spatial distribution of mesoscale heterogeneities on the shock-to-detonation transition in liquid nitromethane
XiaoCheng Mi, Louisa Michael, Nikolaos Nikiforakis +1
The sensitizing effect of cavities in the form of microbubbles on the shock initiation of a homogeneous liquid explosive is studied computationally. While the presence of voids in…