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=Gauss14= | |||
The Gauss14 is a manportable femtosattelite launch platform. | |||
==Launcher== | |||
Based on the University of Austin Texas design for the SPEAR coilgun. Current goal is to launch projectiles with a mass of up to 10g. | |||
A SMES device (Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage) is the most viable option for storing the launchers energy. | |||
= | ==Satellite== | ||
The | The femtosatellite will most likely be based on the CubeSat or ArduSat, electronics must be hardend due to high g-forces during launch (up to several hundred g). Current propulsion proposal is EMFF (Electromagnetic Formation Flight) since it does not use any reaction mass. | ||
==Projectile | ==Projectile== | ||
The first Prototype will be a very cheap, reusable Projectile, launched not electromagnetically but by balloon or conventional chemical propulsion. | The first Prototype will be a very cheap, reusable Projectile, launched not electromagnetically but by balloon or conventional chemical propulsion. | ||
==Major Challenges== | |||
=Links= | ====Efficiency==== | ||
Is currently the biggest challenge. Almost all Coilgun designs suffer from low efficiency of only 3 to 9 percent due to losses in the magnetic field and the projectile. | |||
====SMES funding==== | |||
The SMES is still being actively researched and only a few prototypes are in existence. Aquiring (buying or borrowing one) will be expensive. | |||
==Links== | |||
SPEAR coilgun https://www.utexas.edu/research/cem/IEEE/PR%20198%20Bresie%20Publications.pdf | SPEAR coilgun https://www.utexas.edu/research/cem/IEEE/PR%20198%20Bresie%20Publications.pdf | ||
ArduSat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArduSat | ArduSat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArduSat | ||
CubeSat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat | CubeSat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat | ||
EMFF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_Formation_Flight | |||
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/793Miller.pdf | |||
SMES http://www.superpower-inc.com/content/superconducting-magnetic-energy-storage-smes | |||
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/423227/superconducting-magnets-for-grid-scale-storage/ | |||