John Hunter (scientist)

John Hunter (scientist)

John Hunter is a projectile researcher, who developed the 1994 "supergun" Super High Altitude Research Project (SHARP) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The ultimate aim of his research is to shoot payloads into space, at less than one tenth of the cost of unmanned rockets.

References

* [http://www.phys.uregina.ca/node/239 Shooting right for the stars with one gargantuan gas gun] - Excerpt from 1996 Smithsonian Magazine on Hunter's work with SHARP. The final paragraph contains the financial assessment.
*SHARP Gun Accelerates Scramjets to Mach 9", by William B Scott, Aviation Week and Space Technology, September 9, 1996, page 63.
* [http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/sharp.htm Encyclopedia Astronautica - SHARP]


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