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BlackLight Rocket Engine Citation
Our citation to the 2002 Phase I study of the BlackLight Rocket Engine needs some work. Here is how it stands:

''Around 2002 the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) granted a Phase I grant to Anthony Marchese, a mechanical engineer in Rowan University, to study a possible rocket propulsion that would use hydrinos. NIAC funds research that has little chance of obtaining a result, because the occasional success compensates all the fruitless investments.[37]''

I was surprised to find the citation does not go to the actual report, but to an article about the NIAC. I propose actually citing this study and briefly reporting its conclusions, as follows:

''In 2002 the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) granted a Phase I grant to Anthony Marchese, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University, to study a possible rocket propulsion that would use BLP's "low pressure mixed gas hydrogen plasmas" for "the purposes of space based propulsion systems." The authors performed spectroscopic and calorimeter studies and found evidence for "extremely high random translational velocity as demonstrated by Doppler line broading," in these plasmas. They designed two thruster configurations with the goal of utilizing "directed translational velocity" for propulsion. While they were able to perform the spectroscopic studies they were unable to measure the exhaust velocity of the thrusters. The authors concluded that "Phase II funding is justified" based on the quantitative results of the plasma experiments and the qualitative results of the thruster test firings.''

Here is the actual citation:



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