Recent Advances in Space Propulsion

Dr. Sutherland received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1950 and his M.S. in the same field from Princeton University in 1952. In 1956, after completing a thesis on the burning mechanism of an ammonium-perchlorate solid propellant, he obtained his Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering. Since 1956 the author has worked at Boeing Airplane Co. on problems connected with large, rocket boosted weapon and space systems and in the field of advanced propulsion. He is cvirrently head of the Advanced Propulsion Group of Boeing's Systems Management Office.

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[20]  Ernst Stuhlinger.  The Flight Path of an Electrically Propelled Space Ship , 1957 .

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[26]  The Evaporation of Atoms, Ions and Electrons from Caesium Films on Tungsten , 1933 .

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[31]  A. Kolb.  PRODUCTION OF HIGH-ENERGY PLASMAS BY MAGNETICALLY DRIVEN SHOCK WAVES , 1957 .

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[37]  Ralph Hoyt Bacon,et al.  Logarithmic Spiral: An Ideal Trajectory for the Interplanetary Vehicle with Engines of Low Sustained Thrust , 1959 .

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