Advanced Power Sources for Space Missions

By Energy Engineering Board, National Research Council, Committee on Advanced Space Based High Power Technologies

"Star Wars"--as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is dubbed--will require reliable sources of immense amounts of energy to power such advanced weapons as lasers and particle beams. Are such power sources available? This study says no, not yet--and points the way toward the kind of energy research and development that is needed to power SDI.

Advanced Power Sources for Space Missions presents a comprehensive and objective view of SDI's unprecedented power requirements and the opportunities we have to meet them in a cost-effective manner.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309039991
• ISBN13: 9780309039994
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"