Documents / Report

Defense Intelligence Reference Document Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellites

Defense Intelligence Agency · 77 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

Open the PDF Original source ↗

“NASA”4 pages

  • p. 17 …In the 1990's, a joint program involving the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center and the…
  • p. 33 …and development currently underway at the NSF, NASA and the AFRL (Dayton, OH) is successful, then…
  • p. 74 …This author recommends that the Department of Defense, in collaboration with NASA, return laser Lightcraft propulsion…
  • p. 75 …A. (1972), "Laser Propulsion," NASA Technical Memorandum TM X-2510. 4 Pirri, A. N., and Weiss…
01 November 2010
ICOD 30 August 2010
DIA-08-1011-001
UNCLASSIFIED//F811. IIFFH!l"L 1!1!11! 1!1111! I
Defense
Intelligence
Reference
Document
Defense Futures
Laser Lightcraft
Nanosatellites
Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellites
UNCLASSIFIED/,<SOP AEFJCJ0I !165 ADP! X

Not linked to a story yet.

About this file

Report, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 77 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.