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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. 4 …new services that no
one foresaw at the time of manufacture. Either way, a new satellite…
- p. 8 …Photonic crystals exploit this principle by varying the density or refractive index of a
material in…
- p. 9 …However, even these magical materials are "static"; that is, their properties are fixed at
the time…
- p. 10 …In the future, advanced supercomputers may be able to monitor the objects around
us-our desks…
- p. 12 …The report concluded that dynamic windows "offer the potential for significantly greater
HVAC savings than can…
- p. 14 …5 times the
efficiency and 23,000 times the speed of all previous designs. The electrically…
- p. 15 …of the energy budget is spent heating and cooling things-often at the
same time. It…
- p. 16 …that were not
anticipated at the time of manufacture. In the future, dynamic materials may serve…
- p. 17 …Then, suddenly, the clock strikes 0600 Houston time, and an arrangement of diffusive
portholes and mirrors…
- p. 18 …At the same time, a solar storm-predicted days ago-
finally begins to kick up. The…
14 December 2009
ICOD: 1 December 2009
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