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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 1 November 2010, was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It describes nanosatellite technologies and proposes launching nanosats into orbit with laser Lightcraft propulsion. It also covers a weapon mission selection study and multi-megawatt laser options. The author recommends that the Department of Defense and NASA bring Lightcraft R&D back to the United States and restart the X-50LR flight demonstration program.
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UNCLASSIFIED/ /1"91t 9ffll!l'41! l!lliE ,nu,,, 1,000 nanosats attached to the tether. Each nanosat is a self-contained optical sensor spacecraft, integrated into a 0.1 kg package. The sensor thus detects 1,000 wavelengths simultaneously. The sensor has a resolution as small as 40 cm on the ground from GEO. Its field of view can be scanned over an area by tilting the ensemble using MEMS FEEP thrusters on the nanosats, or libration modes can be excited in the tether so that the field of view scans across a 2,000 km coverage area in a quasi- random mode, eventually covering the entire area. These thrusters also serve for stationkeeping. Its total weight is less than 900 kg in orbit, which can be reduced in the future to 9 kg if Buckytubes are used to construct the system. 41 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR QFFICIOP 1!55 ODIi Y
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