Joel C. Sercel
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American aerospace engineer
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Aerospace Engineering
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#3717
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Joel C. Sercel's Degrees
- Bachelors Aerospace Engineering University of Southern California
- Masters Aerospace Engineering Stanford University
- PhD Aerospace Engineering Stanford University
Why Is Joel C. Sercel Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joel C. Sercel is an American aerospace engineer. He is the inventor of Omnivore Thruster, a new concept of propulsion technology for in-space transportation, of Optical Mining, a technology for extracting raw materials from asteroids, of the Radiant Gas Dynamic method of lunar water harvesting, and of the Sun Flower Power Tower architecture for capturing and converting solar power into electricity to be used in polar lunar regions. , his work and studies have led to eight US patents and seventeen published applications. An asteroid, Joelsercel, was named after him.
Joel C. Sercel's Published Works
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Published Works
- Evaluation of an inflatable antenna concept for microwave sensing of soil moisture and ocean salinity (1999) (49)
- Icemaker/sup TM/: an excel-based environment for collaborative design (2003) (35)
- Electron-cyclotron-resonance (ECR) plasma acceleration (1987) (26)
- An experimental and theoretical study of the ECR plasma engine (1993) (25)
- Small Body Rendezvous Mission Using Solar Electric Ion Propulsion: Low Cost Mission Approach and Technology Requirements (1995) (23)
- Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) Formulation Assessment and Support Team (FAST) Final Report (2016) (23)
- Transport vehicle for manned Mars missions powered by inertial confinement fusion (1987) (22)
- Electron-cyclotron-resonance (ECR) plasma thruster research (1988) (21)
- Availability and delta-v requirements for delivering water extracted from near-Earth objects to cis-lunar space (2018) (19)
- Advanced propulsion options for the Mars cargo mission (1990) (18)
- Simple model of plasma acceleration in a magnetic nozzle (1990) (17)
- Plasma separation from magnetic field lines in a magnetic nozzle (1993) (16)
- Multimegawatt nuclear electric propulsion - First order system design and performance evaluation (1986) (16)
- Laser propulsion for the orbital transfer mission (1985) (15)
- ASIME 2016 White Paper: In-Space Utilisation of Asteroids: "Answers to Questions from the Asteroid Miners" (2016) (13)
- The ballistic Mars hopper - An alternative Mars mobility concept (1987) (13)
- Modular and multifunctional systems in the new millennium program (1996) (9)
- A review of the multimegawatt MPD thruster and current mission applications (1986) (8)
- Practical Applications of Asteroidal ISRU in Support of Human Exploration (2018) (6)
- ECR plasma thruster research - Preliminary theory and experiments (1989) (6)
- Solar thermal propulsion for planetary spacecraft (1985) (5)
- The New Millennium Program power technology [space power] (1996) (5)
- Stepping stones: Economic analysis of space transportation supplied from NEO resources (2018) (5)
- Electric thruster models for multimegawatt nuclear electric propulsion mission design (1991) (5)
- THE VISTA SPACECRAFT-ADVANTAGES OF ICF FOR , NTERPLANETARY FUSION PROPULSION APPLICATIONS (1987) (4)
- The VISTA spacecraft: Advantages of ICF (Inertial Confinement Fusion) for interplanetary fusions propulsion applications (1987) (4)
- ASIME 2018 White Paper. In-Space Utilisation of Asteroids: Asteroid Composition -- Answers to Questions from the Asteroid Miners. (2019) (4)
- A Potassium Rankine Multimegawatt Nuclear Electric Propulsion Concept (1990) (4)
- The product attributes database (PAD): first of a new class of productivity tools for product development (1999) (4)
- abstract) A Solar Electric Propulsion Mission to the Moon and Beyond (1994) (3)
- Microwave electric propulsion for orbit transfer applications (1985) (3)
- Experimental studies of an ECR plasma thruster (1993) (3)
- A Coordinated Research Program to Develop the Technology to Optical Mine Asteroids (2016) (3)
- Optical Mining Subscale Testing (2016) (3)
- Optimized continuous-thrust round-trip trajectoriesto ultra-low Δv ISRU targets (2021) (2)
- Producing volatiles from Asteroid simulants: Preliminary results (2017) (2)
- Beamed energy for space craft propulsion - Conceptual status and development potential (1987) (2)
- An overview of the NASA Advanced Propulsion Concepts program (1992) (2)
- Sutter Survey: Telescope Breakthrough Enables MicroSats to Map Accessible NEOs (2018) (1)
- The Snow Badger Mission Concept: Trenching for Ice with Humans and Robots (2020) (1)
- Microgravity Granular Material Research Facility for ISS (2018) (1)
- Computational Modeling of Heat Transport and Volatile Extraction from Asteroid Materials (2018) (1)
- Transformers for Lunar Extreme Environments: Ensuring Long-Term Operations in Regions of Darkness and Low Temperatures. Phase; II (2017) (1)
- A brief review of JPL's electric propulsion technology activities (1989) (1)
- AIAA-87-1407 Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance ( ECR ) Plasma Acceleration (0)
- Inflatable Reflector For Solar Power And Radio Communication (1995) (0)
- Magnetic Lens For Plasma Engine (1992) (0)
- JPL Innovation Foundry: a NASA program based on this initiative (2013) (0)
- Thousand Astronomical Unit Voyage: A Deep Space Mission (1986) (0)
- Industrializing the near-earth asteroids: Speculations on human activities in space in the latter half of the 21st century (1990) (0)
- Time dependent finite difference modeling of outgassing of asteroids via bulk heating (2018) (0)
- Maximizing the Scientific Return of Low Cost Planetary Missions Using Solar Electric Propulsion(abstract) (1994) (0)
- Electron-cyclotron-resonance plasma-thruster research. Final report, 1 Apr 87-30 Jun 91 (1991) (0)
- Asteroid Redirect Mission %28ARM%29 Formulation Assessment and Support Team %28FAST%29 Final Report (2016) (0)
- In-Space Fabrication and Growth of Affordable Large Interior Rotating Habitats (2020) (0)
- Pulsed-Microwave Electrothermal Thrustors (1995) (0)
- TransFormers for Lunar Extreme Environments (2016) (0)
- Advanced propulsion concepts (1991) (0)
- Momentus In-Space Satellite Transportation Services: Vigoride System Design and Performance (2019) (0)
- Laboratory Apparatus for Evaluating Volatiles Production from Meteorites and Simulants: Design and Testing (2016) (0)
- Solar Thermal Rocket Propulsion (1986) (0)
- Soil Moisture Pathfinder: A Low-Cost Passive Spaceborne System Using Inflatable Structures (1996) (0)
- Web N.0: The next revolution in information systems is upon us (2009) (0)
- A strategy to develop robust capabilities for wireless aerospace expeditionary force (AEF) C/sup 3/I requirements (2000) (0)
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