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. 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 concept[1][2]
See also
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edit- ^ "How We Get To Next - How We Get To Next". 8 February 2018.
- ^ "Home Page of Green Launch".
External links
edit- New technology testing may achieve the goals of HARP "space" gun
- Video 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
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