ARTICLES | August 10, 2020
On July 16, 2020, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload was installed and integrated on the U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STPSat-6)...
Directed EnergyNOTABLE TI | June 10, 2020
DSIAC received a technical inquiry on using shape memory alloys (SMAs) as a joining or coupling intermediate for materials with dissimilar thermal expansion coefficients (CTEs)...
Advanced Materials / EnergeticsNOTABLE TI | May 27, 2020
A DSIAC subject matter expert from the Johns Hopkins University Energetics Research Group performed open-source and Joint Army Navy NASA Air Force (JANNAF) repository searches....
EnergeticsARTICLES | February 25, 2020
It takes a lot of fuel to launch something into space. Sending NASA’s Space Shuttle into orbit required more than 3.5 million pounds of fuel,...
EnergeticsARTICLES | February 11, 2020
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently delivered four RL10 upper stage engines to NASA’s Stennis Space Center that will help power NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as...
EnergeticsARTICLES | December 31, 2019
Last year, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft with no moving parts. It was...
EnergeticsNOTABLE TI | December 03, 2019
DSIAC was tasked to determine what is being done to mitigate the impact of electronic and cyber warfare technologies on satellites, specifically communication and navigation...
Directed Energy / Military Sensing / Non-Lethal Weapons / Survivability and VulnerabilityARTICLES | November 19, 2019
A massive cloud of space junk—containing more than 23,000 pieces larger than 10 cm across—is currently zooming around Earth with an average speed of about 36,000...
EnergeticsARTICLES | November 05, 2019
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab is shooting for the moon, literally. The small-satellite launch startup announced today (October 21) that its new Photon satellite platform will be able to fly small...
EnergeticsARTICLES | October 22, 2019
An engineer who works for NASA has put forward a proposal for a new way to travel through interstellar space—a “helical engine” that could, potentially,...
EnergeticsARTICLES | October 08, 2019
Just north of the Tennessee River near Huntsville, AL, there’s a six-story rocket test stand in a small clearing of loblolly pines. It’s here, in...
EnergeticsARTICLES | August 27, 2019
What happens if a spacecraft encounters problems in the vacuum of space? While space travel can be very dangerous, there are plenty of fail-safes. NASA,...
EnergeticsARTICLES | July 29, 2019
Nuclear energy has played a key supporting role in historic missions to Mars, Pluto, and across the Solar System for the last 50 years. On...
EnergeticsARTICLES | July 29, 2019
Nuclear energy has played a key supporting role in historic missions to Mars, Pluto, and across the Solar System for the last 50 years. On...
EnergeticsARTICLES | July 29, 2019
Nuclear energy has played a key supporting role in historic missions to Mars, Pluto, and across the Solar System for the last 50 years. On...
EnergeticsARTICLES | July 29, 2019
Nuclear energy has played a key supporting role in historic missions to Mars, Pluto, and across the Solar System for the last 50 years. On...
EnergeticsNOTABLE TI | July 22, 2019
DSIAC received a technical inquiry stemming from the New York Times article “Hypersonic Missiles Are Unstoppable. And They’re Starting a New Global Arms Race” regarding...
Advanced Materials / Weapons SystemsARTICLES | July 02, 2019
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy spacecraft surged into space late Monday night, June 24, carrying 24 satellites on a mission considered among the Hawthorne-based rocket builder’s...
EnergeticsARTICLES | June 19, 2019
A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon. If you “ever” wanted to geek out over the Apollo 11 mission, the spaceflight that...
EnergeticsARTICLES | June 18, 2019
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will test a non-toxic, rosé-coloured fuel and compatible propulsion system in space that could be used for missions...
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