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Grinding is used to satisfy figure and finish requirements for optics, removing successive layers of material to ensure alleviation of any damage created from the prior operation. Consequently, fabrication times are slow and expensive. The optics manufacturing industry currently lacks physics-based models needed to understand the impact of process and material variables on final part quality and ...

Successful rocket sled testing stretches the limits of known science in many areas including aerodynamics, thermal heating, impact dynamics and material structural integrity to name a few. As sled speeds and payload weights have increased over recent years, the margin of tolerable error in engineering judgment has been shrinking. Computational tools for predicting aerodynamics and structural res ...

The Holloman High Speed Test Track (HSTT) requires the ability to accurately predict the amount of wear occurring on rocket sled slippers during testing. The sliding interface speeds and pressures experienced by slipper materials on the HSTT rail far exceeds any phenomena studied and documented to date. During the Phase I effort, a math model was developed to predict slipper wear using the free ...

Atmospheric drag is the biggest source of error and the least predictable perturbing force acting on spacecraft and space debris objects in orbit around Earth. The U.S. Air Force uses the High accuracy satellite drag model (HASDM) to predict the atmospheric drag effects. Kayhan Space in collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder seeks to improve the HASDM by decoupling and simultaneousl ...

Atmospheric drag is the biggest source of error and the least predictable perturbing force acting on spacecraft and space debris objects in orbit around Earth. The U.S. Air Force uses the High accuracy satellite drag model (HASDM) to predict the atmospheric drag effects. Kayhan Space in collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder and Space Environment Technologies seeks to improve the HA ...

The Microballoon Manufacturing and Autopilot Development Program proposed under the scope of this effort is a comprehensive initiative focusing on advancing the production process and flight controls of stratospheric microballoons. The program emphasizes

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to develop a compact deployable micro immersive display component for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) based simulation, training, exercises or mission rehearsal applications. The proposed display component is an eye protection goggle type wearable high resolution stereo display. With head tracking and registration, it enabl ...

Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) platforms fit into the USAF Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance strategy by providing local persistence, operation in contested environments, and low probability of detection. SUAS gimbal performance is ty

Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS) platforms fit into the USAF Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance strategy by providing local persistence, operation in contested environments, and low probability of detection. SUAS gimbal performance is typically limited to full color full motion video, limiting target detection and identification information available to image analysts and detecti ...

AIRCRAFT DESIGNED FOR FLIGHT IN THE MACH 3-6 RANGE MUST INCORPORATE ACTIVE COOLING IN THE TURBORAMJET PROPULSION SYSTEM. THE REQUIRED COOLING CAN BE PROVIDED BY AN ENDOTHERMIC REACTION OF THE FUEL. ENDOTHERMIC-FUEL REACTORS MUST BE SMALL AND LIGHT. HEAT TRANSFER TO THE LOW THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY, CERAMIC, CATALYST SUPPORT IS A MAJOR LIMITATION TO THE REACTOR DESIGN. TDA RESEARCH PROPOSES TO FABRICAT ...