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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program and dated 14 December 2009, is a white paper on programmable matter and smart materials. It covers quantum dots, metamaterials, liquid crystals, dynamic windows and spacecraft thermal management, and describes a future space station scenario. It concludes that even partial realization could bring significant gains in spacecraft energy efficiency, safety and mission flexibility.

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  • p. 14 …For spacecraft hulls fashioned from programmable materials, it should be possible to create Peltier coolers on…
  • p. 16 …Because the atmosphere within the spacecraft exerts a constant outward pressure on the hull, this seems…
  • p. 17 …If we could see through the hull, we could watch the capacitors swelling-literally growing larger…
  • p. 18 …Peltier junctions begin to appear in the hull, their radiators-colored black and yellow and covered…
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