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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellites
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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.
“The Advance”13 pages
- p. 2 …a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2010 under the Defense
Intelligence Agency,~(b…
- p. 5 …the mission operational costs for
tracking and managing a constellation.
To reduce overall mission cost, advanced…
- p. 8 …being the biggest drivers.
Advanced microelectronic solutions are being developed to meet these challenges. The
microelectronics…
- p. 9 …The RHrFPGA also
allows concurrent design by decoupling the logic design from the module, shortens the…
- p. 12 …However, "receiver-on-a-chip" technology has advanced to the point where
including a receiver onboard…
- p. 17 …the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center and the Propulsion Sciences and Advanced
Concepts Division of the…
- p. 55 …remove and store the waste
heat produced by BSSSL devices. General Atomics' Advanced Power Systems Division…
- p. 56 …The HELLADS matched-index-
of-refraction liquid cooling technique and General Atomics' advanced thermal energy
storage…
- p. 64 …and testing of
advanced high-energy/high-power FEL designs for the purpose of deploying them…
- p. 66 …High-Power FEL Optical Resonator (courtesy of the Naval Post-Graduate School
FEL Lab).
ESTIMATED PAYLOAD…
- p. 72 …The system is single-stage-to-orbit and completely reusable with no onboard
propellant required (the…
- p. 75 …Laser Propulsion Q Advanced Applications,"
in Vision-21: Space Travel for the Next Millennium, edited by…
- p. 76 …Advanced Concepts Office, AFRL/PRSP, Edwards AFB,
CA (Nov. 18, 2002).
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[33, 34]. At present, AFOSR is funding the Brazilian Air Force's hypersonic shock
tunnel study of laser Lightcraft propulsion in collaboration with Leik Myrabo's laser
propulsion group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) [35]. This author
recommends that the Department of Defense, in collaboration with NASA, return laser
Lightcraft propulsion R&D to the United States and restart the space launch test flight
demonstration program of the Air Force X-S0LR Lightcraft, which was originally
proposed by Dr. Frank Mead [34].
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