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THE GOVERNMENT HAS INITIATED A NUMBER OF PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE U.S. LAUNCH VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY. THESE PROGRAMS ARE CURRENTLY FOCUSED ON MEETING GOVERNMENT LAUNCH REQUIREMENTS. IF THESE PROGRAMS ARE ALSO TO BENEFIT THE COMMERCIAL LAUNCH INDUSTRY, COMMERCIAL REQUIREMENTS MUST BE INTEGRATED INTO THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT. THIS PROJECT WILL ASSESS THE COMMERCIAL APPLICABILITY OF GOVERNM ...

Future flight vehicles will require incredased speed, precision, and survivability under a wider variety of flight conditions than current technology supports. The traditional role of flight control systems (FCS) in providing stability and command augmentations must be expanded to achieve enhanced maneuverability, combat effectiveness, and self repair. Recent advances in the development of fuzzy l ...

The following proposal contains a design that significantly suppresses the vibration associated with space structures. Our intention is to develop a chaotically controlled suppression system utilizing electrorheological (ER) material based adaptive structures. ER material structures can suppress structural vibrations through three functional characteristics: variable structural damping, resonance ...

A NEW RANGE-DOPPLER LASER-RADAR FOR SOLID TARGET DETECTION WITH 1 M RANGE AND 0.5 M/S VELOCITY RESOLUTION AT RANGES UP TO SEVERAL HUNDRED KILOMETERS IS PROPOSED. A MULTI-BEAM AGILE SCANNER FEATURE WILL PROVIDE ANGULAR DISCRIMINATION ACROSS A LARGE FOV IMAGE WITH A WIDE FIELD OF REGARD. RANGE RESOLUTION, DOWN 1O 1 M, AND VELOCITY RESOLUTION DOWN TO 0.5 M/S (WITH A DYNAMIC RANGE UP TO 11,000 KM/S) A ...

THE COMBINATION OF A MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC (MHD) GENERATOR OF THE DISK TYPE WITH A (NERVA) REACTOR YEILDS AN ADVANCED SPACE POWER SYSTEM WITH GIGAWATT PULSE AND MEGAWATT CONTINUOUS OPERATING CAPABILITY, AT LOW SPECIFIC MASS AND HIGH SPECIFIC ENTHALPY EXTRACTION. THE NOVEL ASPECT OF THISSYSTEM IS THE DISK MHD GENERATOR OPERATING IN THE NON-EQUILIBRIUM MODE WITH CESIUM SEEDED HYDROGEN AS THE WORKING F ...