Computer Science
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Mar 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aipc..702..430c&link_type=abstract
BEAMED ENERGY PROPULSION: Second International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 702, p
Computer Science
Spaceborne And Space Research Instruments, Apparatus, And Components, Masers, Gyrotrons
Scientific paper
On 14 April 2003 at the Communications Research Center (CRC) in Ottawa, Ontario, a 5.85-GHz transmitter beamed 3-kW of microwave power to a remote rectifying antenna (i.e., rectenna) that delivered 6-kV to a special `Ion-Breeze' Engine (IBE). Three of CRC's 26.5-cm by 31-cm rectennas were connected in series to provide the ~6-kV output. RPI's low-voltage IBE thrusters performed well in a ``world's first'' power-beaming demonstration with rectennas and endoatmospheric ion-propulsion engines. The successful tests were a low-tech, proof-of-concept demonstration for the future full-sized MicroWave Lightcraft (MWLC) and its air breathing `loiter' propulsion mode. Additional IBE experiments investigated the feasibility of producing flight control forces on the MWLC. The objective was to torque the charged hull for `pitch' or `roll' maneuvers. The torquing demonstration was entirely successful.
Alden A.
Bouliane P.
Cummings T.
Janssen Jeannette
Karnesky J.
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