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Overview
SpaceWave is an innovative technology company exploiting the unique particle acceleration process known as magnetic reconnection. Designed to work with a range of applications including rocket propulsion, missile defense, and fusion power, our compact and efficient patented systems create solar flares in a self-contained and scalable machine architecture.
Magnetic Reconnection Applications
SPACE PROPULSION
Using the natural mechanisms found in solar flares, our systems can achieve propulsion that is more effective than what is achieved by all other modern technologies. This will enable travel to Mars in 40 days instead of 6 to 8 months, opening a new era of deep space exploration.
DIRECTED ENERGY
Magnetic reconnection can be applied to create a compact and efficient space-based neutral particle beam that can contribute to the world’s first global missile defense system and protect against hypersonic threats.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
SpaceWave’s magnetic reconnection technology can substantially increase the plasma kinetic energy of a single accelerator stage, thus effectively achieving the energy densities that can lead to unlimited renewable energy.
Team
LtGen James A. Abrahamson
Chief Executive Officer
Top director of programs for NASA and DoD. First Director of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. Directed Space Shuttle Program
LtCol Roger X. Lenard
Chief Engineer
Nuclear engineer and project manager in SDI; kinetic energy weapons and highly classified nuclear rocket programs.
David L. Chesny, PhD
Chief Scientist
Inventor and applied plasma physicist. Program implementation and testing for accelerator prototypes and power scaling.
N. Brice Orange, PhD
Chairman of the Board
Inventor, heliophysicist, and plasma physicist. Program and data management.
Mark Moffett, PhD
Chief of Reliability, Safety, and Quality Control
Mechanical engineer and inventor. Expert in operational control systems. Pulse power engineer and system scalability.
Publications & Patents
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- Method for creating a three-dimensional magnetic null point topology with an accurate spine axis: Review of Scientific Instruments: Vol 92, No 5 (scitation.org)
- Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 064019 (2020) – Conducting-Coil Assembly for Producing Three-Dimensional Magnetic Null Points (aps.org)
- Toward laboratory torsional spine magnetic reconnection | Journal of Plasma Physics | Cambridge Core
- QUIET-SUN NETWORK BRIGHT POINT PHENOMENA WITH SIGMOIDAL SIGNATURES – IOPscience
- Observations of an Energetically Isolated Quiet Sun Transient: Evidence of Quasi-steady Coronal Heating – NASA/ADS (harvard.edu)