John Hunter (born November 14, 1955) is an American projectile researcher, who developed the 1994 "supergun"
Super High Altitude Research Project (SHARP) at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in Livermore, California, United States. Originally established in 1952, the laboratory now i ...
. The ultimate aim of his research is to shoot payloads into space, at less than one tenth of the cost of unmanned rockets. John Hunter was the director of
Quicklaunch until 2012 and currently runs a startup called Green Launch that is developing a
light-gas gun
The light-gas gun is an apparatus for physics experiments. It is a highly specialized gun designed to generate extremely high velocities. It is usually used to study high-speed impact phenomena ( hypervelocity research), such as the formation of ...
concept
See also
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Gerald Bull
Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a space gun, huge artillery piece, to which ...
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Non-rocket spacelaunch
References
External links
New technology testing may achieve the goals of HARP "space" gunVideo Interview of John Hunter - Gas Station In Space
moonandback 2011
Audio Interview of John Hunter
on The space show
Interview of John Hunter
on medium.com
21st-century American engineers
1955 births
Living people
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