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GIThruster/Paul March,

Any progress? Things going ok?

Wishfully waiting,
Ltgbrown

Ideally they would be on some minimal field trajectory to the wall that could be found with magnetostatic analysis once plasma topology is known. I agree this will drive the optimization of the design. Perhaps there will be a tradeoff between complexity of engineering (invovled with following "some...

Some very interesting designs indeed!

Where do you see the supports attaching to your various structures?

In the spirit of trying to practice what I'm preaching, I have decided not to respond to TDPerk's provocative and insulting response to my post. Which you just did! :( All this "drift" is do to the lack of data. When (I say when instead of if in the firm hope that we will get) data is made availabl...

Very exciting!

Why does the magnetic field drop off after an hour?

Wow there is a lot of frustration over the lack of data/information!

Also, there is a fundamental question I'm a bit puzzled about with regards to your question: You seem to assume that the use of more energy would be a bad thing. But, I ask you - if we have clean, safe, cheap fusion power - where any and every nation has access to abundant, cheap fuel supplies, whe...

I have been wondering for some time about the above question. What if Polywell, or Focus Fusion, or some other source of "clean" and cheap energy is discovered? Are we "ready" for it? First, what do I mean by clean and cheap. By cheap, I mean so inexpensive, that people can begin to discount the cos...

quote]And the scan rate for the E2 is?[/quote] From wikipedia (just to make sure I don't say something I shouldn't), "The APY-9 radar features an Active Electronically Scanned Array, which adds electronic scanning to the mechanical rotation of the radar in its radome." (APY-9 is the radar in the E-2...

I was part of the requirements team for the E-2D Hawkeye. I am fairly, actually, very confident we will have significantly more than 11 NM to detect, track, ID, and engage. Don't forget about CEC and why it was created. Coupled with the SM-3 (or whatever they are labeling the version with a terminal...

GIThruster and Paul, I have been thinking intently about this whole conservation of momentum thing when I thought up a analogy to try to understand what was going on. Let's start with GIThruster's analogy of walking on the surface of the Earth. You said (I am going to do a lot of paraphrasing, so fo...

You need to lift the entire spacecraft from our gravity well, not just the thruster and power source itself Sorry, I was using my avaition definition of 1 to 1 thrust to weight, which is thrust equal to the entire weight of the aircraft (or spacecraft), as in able to accelerate in the vertical, not...

OK, I am no aeronautical engineer nor a physicist. I know that and so if you all point a fundamental mistake in my reasoning below, I will not be offended nor defensive, so please be gentle! :) I do not think we need a greater than 1 to 1 thrust to weight ratio M-E thruster to get to orbit (and of c...

I thought they were late posting last time also???

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