Physical Sciences, Inc.

Alliant Techsystems Inc.

United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force

Bernard L Upschulte

Prakash B Joshi

B David Green

Alan H Gelb

Dean M Lester

Ingvar A Wallace

W David Starrett

Steven J Davis

Ludwig C Balling

John J Wright

A vehicle includes at least one polyoxymethylene structural support member. The polyoxymethylene structural support member includes a polyoxymethylene component that is a propellant that provides thrust to the vehicle upon pyrolysis or combustion of the polyoxymethylene component of the product of pyrolysis of the polyoxymethylene component. The vehicle can be a satellite or other type of spacecraft.

Method for fabricating structural propellants

Polyoxymethylene as structural support member and propellant

A diode laser-pumped magnetometer includes a diode laser that emits a polarized pumping laser beam with resonant optical radiation; and a K-cell through which a magnetic field is manifested from an independent source, the K-cell containing atoms with a dipole experiencing a torque due to the magnetic field. The atoms are excited by the resonant optical radiation of the pumping laser beam and periodically emitting a response radiation as they return to ground state such that the response radiation includes photons that indicate one unit of angular momentum indicative of the torque due to the magnetic field. Finally, a photodetector serves as a means for measuring the response radiation of the K-cell to indicate thereby a measure of the magnetic field in the K-cell from the independent magnetic source.

Diode laser-pumped magnetometer

Growing community of inventors

Nashua, NH, United States of America

Bernard L Upschulte