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Article: Study data from P. Gnemmi and colleagues update understanding of spacecraft and rockets.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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According to recent research from France, "The generation of a plasma discharge on a projectile surface seems to be away of producing a pressure imbalance to divert a projectile from its initial trajectory. Thus, some experiments dealing with the steering of a supersonic projectile by using a plasma actuator are presented."
"The plasma discharge is produced by an embedded low-voltage generator capable of delivering an electric discharge between the electrodes flush with the projectile surface. A first series of experiments carried out under wind-tunnel conditions at a Mach number of 3 allows the detailed study of the perturbation evolution along the projectile ...