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 / +1ARTICLES | 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...
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...
EnergeticsNOTABLE TI | May 01, 2019
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a need for high-rate discharge batteries and electric motors that can drive an electric pump to power...
Advanced Materials / EnergeticsARTICLES | March 11, 2019
At 2:49 a.m. EST on March 2, SpaceX launched Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...
EnergeticsNOTABLE TI | February 25, 2019
DSIAC was asked to search online resources for open source information on U.S. agencies involved in and programs related to hypersonic weapons research and development...
Survivability and Vulnerability / Weapons Systems