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From: kempf@hplabsc.UUCP (Jim Kempf)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Electromagnetic launchers
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Date: Sat, 15-Nov-86 01:11:42 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 15 01:11:42 1986
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Summary: laser launchers


Re: offbeat launching schemes, sometime back I saw an article in
a technical rocketry journal about using a space based laser to
lift a vehicle using an electromagnetic field and MHD forces.
Does anyone know what happened to this idea? 
	Jim Kempf	hplabs!kempf