Slingatron Publications and Resume

1.   “Constant-Frequency Hypervelocity Slings”, D. A. Tidman, AIAA J. Propulsion and Power, Vol. 19, No. 4, July-August, 2003, pp 581-587.

2.   “Study of the Phase-Lock Phenomenon for a Circular Slingatron,” G. R. Cooper and D. A. Tidman, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 18, No. 3, May-June, 2002, p 505-508.

3.   “Slingatron: A High Velocity Rapid Fire Sling,” D. A. Tidman, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol.18, No. 2, March-April 2002, p322 - 329. (Presented earlier at 10th U.S. Army Gun Dynamics Symposium, April 23-26, Austin, TX).

4  . “Numerical Simulations of the Slingatron,” G. R. Cooper, D. A. Tidman, and M. L. Bundy, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol.18, No. 2, March-April, 2002, p.338-343. (Presented earlier at 10th U.S. Army Gun Dynamics Symposium, April 23-26, Austin, TX).

5.   “Sizing a Slingatron-Based Space Launcher,” AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, M. L. Bundy, D. A. Tidman, and G. R. Cooper, Vol. 18, No. 2, March -April, 2002, p330-337. (Presented earlier at 10th U.S. Army Gun Dynamics Symposium, April 23-26, Austin, TX).

6.   “The Spiral Slingatron Mass Launcher,” D. A. Tidman, CP552, Space Technology and Applications International Forum-2001, edited by M. S. El-Genk, published by the American Institute of Physics, 2001. 1-56396-980-7/01

7.   “A Scientific Study on Sliding Friction Related to Slingatrons”, D. A. Tidman, UTRON Inc., Final Report for U. S. Army Contract No. DAAD17-00-P-0710 February 20, 2001. Interagency funds transfer from NASA.

8.   “Slingatron Engineering and Early Experiments”, D. A. Tidman and J. R. Greig, Proceedings of the fourteenth SSI/Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing, May 6-9, 1999, pages 306-312, edited by B. Faughnan, Space Studies Institute, Princeton, NJ.

9.    “Slingatron Dynamics and Launch to LEO”, D. A. Tidman, Proceedings of the thirteenth SSI/Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing, May 8-11, 1997, edited by B. Faughnan, Space Studies Institute, Princeton, NJ, pp.139-141.

10.  “Slingatron Mass Launchers”, D. A. Tidman, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 537-544, July-August, 1998.

11.  “The Slingatron”, a magazine article by John Kross in Ad Astra Magazine, National Space Society, September/October 1996, pages 47 – 51.

12.  “Sling Launch of Materials into Space”, D. A. Tidman, R. L. Burton, D. S. Jenkins, and F. D. Witherspoon, in Proceedings of the twelfth SSI/Princeton Conference on Space Manufacturing, May 4 -7, 1995, edited by B. Faughnan, pp.59-70.

13.  “Sling Launch of a Mass Using Super-conducting Levitation”, D. A. Tidman, IEEE Trans. Magnetics, Vol. 32, No. 1, pages 240-247, January, 1996 (Submitted Oct. 30, 1994)

1.  US Patent No. 5,699,779, December 23, 1997, on a “Method of and Apparatus for Moving a Mass”, D. A. Tidman.

2.  US Patent No. 5,950,608, September 14, 1999, on a “Method of and Apparatus for Moving a Mass”, D. A. Tidman.

3.  US Patent No. 6,014,964, January 18, 2000, on a “Method and Apparatus for Moving a Mass in a Spiral Track”, D. A. Tidman.

4.  U.S. Patent No. 6,712,055, D. A. Tidman, March 30,2004, “Spiral Mass Launcher”.

5.  U.S. Patent Application No. 10/838,219, filed May 5, 2004, D. A. Tidman and M. L. Kregel, “Spiral Mass Launcher”.

6. U.S. Patent Application, "High Velocity Mass Accelerator and Method of Use Thereof", Derek A. Tidman, filed July 16, 2008”.

Slingatron Mass Accelerators  A Mechanical, Hypervelocity, Rapid Fire, Scalable Sling