*Imagine that it really does work, and changes everything, and then you've got to explain why you left in on the shelf for seventeen years out of sheer conventional mulishness. Man, that's almost as embarrassing as having to rewrite heaps of quantum physics just 'cause some weird gadget functions.
Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum
Harold White*
Paul March†
James Lawrence‡
Jerry Vera§
Andre Sylvester¶
David Brady**
Paul Bailey††
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058
*Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead and Principal Investigator, Eagleworks Laboratories, EP4, 2101 NASA Parkway. Member AIAA.
†Principal Engineer, Eagleworks Laboratories, 2101 NASA Parkway, EP4. Senior Member AIAA.
‡Electrical Engineer, Eagleworks Laboratories, 2101 NASA Parkway, EP5.
§Mechanical Engineer and COMSOL Multiphysics Analyst, Eagleworks Laboratories, 2101 NASA Parkway, EP4.
¶Project Manager, Eagleworks Laboratories, 2101 NASA Parkway.
**Aerospace Engineer, Eagleworks Laboratories, 2101 NASA Parkway.
††Scientist, Eagleworks Laboratories, 2101 NASA Parkway.
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Publication Date (online): November 17, 2016
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A vacuum test campaign evaluating the impulsive thrust performance of a tapered radio-frequency test article excited in the transverse magnitude 212 mode at 1937 MHz has been completed. The test campaign consisted of a forward thrust phase and reverse thrust phase at less than 8×10−6torr
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