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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.
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- p. 2 …b)/3):10 USC 424 !Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications
(AAWSA) Program.omments or questions pertaining…
- p. 3 …Laser Lightcraft Weapon Mission Selection Study .................................. 27
Chapter 4: Summary of Multi-Megawatt Laser Study for…
- p. 31 …Laser Lightcraft Weapon Mission Selection
Study
The objective of the Froning and Davis 26 study was…
- p. 52 …Even though 100 kW beam power has long been the proof-of-principle sought for
weapons…
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achieved by laser weapons with 25…
- p. 57 …such systems have already been modified
for weapons applications with a goal toward achieving > 100 kW…
- p. 64 …The Naval Sea Systems Command's (NAVSEA) Directed Energy and Electric Weapon
Systems (DE&EWS) Program…
- p. 67 …HEL weapons usually have high-power optical trains containing more than a dozen
mirrors. However, these…
- p. 68 …and deployed by the various
directed energy weapons programs that offers reduced complexity and component
count…
- p. 69 …the high precision required for a HEL Weapon,
The sensor and Beam Expander must maintain precise…
- p. 71 …done by the various DoD directed energy
weapons/HEL programs can be immediately leveraged for laser…
- p. 72 …ground/sea- or airborne-launched kinetic kill weapons to shoot down enemy ballistic
missiles. Very innovative…
- p. 73 …explored by the various DoD directed energy weapons programs
offer higher electrical-to-optical efficiencies and…
- p. 76 …E. (2009), Effects of Directed Energy Weapons: High Power Lasers,
High Power Microwaves, and Particle Beams…
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