• A ram accelerator is a device for accelerating projectiles or just a single projectile to extremely high speeds using jet-engine-like propulsion cycles...
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    uncrewed payloads to orbit for less than the regular launch costs. A ram accelerator also uses chemical energy like the space gun but it is entirely different...
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    Electrical Coilgun Mass driver Railgun StarTram Chemical Space gun Blast wave accelerator Ram accelerator Mechanical Slingatron...
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    continued to operate after the projectiles impacted the desert floor. Ram accelerator Project Babylon Non-rocket spacelaunch Electrothermal-chemical technology...
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    Mass driver (redirect from Mass accelerator)
    Aircraft Launch System Railgun Plasma railgun Helical railgun Coilgun Ram accelerator Light-gas gun Linear motor StarTram Launch loop Space fountain Spacecraft...
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  • energy for a projectile Ram accelerator, a device for accelerating projectiles using ramjet or scramjet combustion Produce accelerators, cannons which use...
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    Light-gas gun Mass driver Edwin Fitch Northrup Plasma railgun Railgun Ram accelerator Solenoid Tubular linear motor Levi, E.; He, L; Zabar, H; Birenbaum...
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    more stable and has a longer shelf life. PETN can be used in some ram accelerator types. Replacement of the central carbon atom with silicon produces...
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  • could refuel a propellant depot or send bulk materials into space. Ram accelerators have also been proposed as an alternative to light-gas guns. Other...
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    Non-rocket spacelaunch Silbervogel Spaceplane StarTram Inductrack Railgun Ram accelerator CAM ship Fighter catapult ship Coilgun Mass driver Hopper (spacecraft)...
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    specialized graphics circuits since the 1970s. In early video game hardware, RAM for frame buffers was expensive, so video chips composited data together...
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  • Electrical Coilgun Mass driver Railgun StarTram Chemical Space gun Blast wave accelerator Ram accelerator Mechanical Slingatron...
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    light-gas gun, a high-velocity gun that uses combusted gas as propellant. Ram accelerator, a high-velocity gun that uses different principles to achieve similar...
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    Electrical Coilgun Mass driver Railgun StarTram Chemical Space gun Blast wave accelerator Ram accelerator Mechanical Slingatron...
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    Aviation portal Avangard (hypersonic glide vehicle) Precooled jet engine Ram accelerator Shcramjet SABRE (rocket engine) "Lorin Ramjet". www.enginehistory.org...
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  • observations.[citation needed] Helical railgun Coilgun Mass driver Ram accelerator Light-gas gun Pulsed plasma thruster MARAUDER Combustion light-gas...
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    patents in jet propulsion. Patents US 5121670  and US 4722261  are for ram accelerators. The U.S. Navy would not allow Zwicky to publicly discuss his invention...
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    Electrical Coilgun Mass driver Railgun StarTram Chemical Space gun Blast wave accelerator Ram accelerator Mechanical Slingatron...
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    Electrical Coilgun Mass driver Railgun StarTram Chemical Space gun Blast wave accelerator Ram accelerator Mechanical Slingatron...
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    Electrical Coilgun Mass driver Railgun StarTram Chemical Space gun Blast wave accelerator Ram accelerator Mechanical Slingatron...
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  • literature as of 2007. Railgun Plasma railgun Coilgun Mass driver Ram accelerator Light-gas gun Electrothermal-chemical technology Henry Kolm Baum, Carl...
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    Electrical Coilgun Mass driver Railgun StarTram Chemical Space gun Blast wave accelerator Ram accelerator Mechanical Slingatron...
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  • on ram accelerator technology Scramjet, the flow of and combustion of the fuel/air mixture through the engine at supersonic speeds Static column RAM (or...
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    coilgun) (an electric gun) Rocket sled launch Space gun (Project HARP, ram accelerator) (a chemically powered gun) Beam-powered propulsion rockets and jets...
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  • The KALI (Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) is a linear electron accelerator being developed in India by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)...
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  • Cache: 64 KB onboard RAM DMA compatible: No Upgradeable: No Number Nine Apple Booster (1982) was one of the first accelerators for the Apple II series...
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