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CRUISE MISSILE THREAT Volume 2: Emerging Cruise Missile Threat
By Systems Assessment Group NDIA Strike, Land Attack and Air Defense Committee August 1999 FEASIBILITY OF THIRD WORLD ADVANCED BALLISTIC AND CRUISE MISSILE THREAT Volume 2: Emerging Cruise Missile Threat The Systems Assessment Group of the National Defense Industrial Association ( NDIA) Strike, Land Attack and Air Defense Committee performed this study as a continuing examination of feasible Third World missile threats. Volume 1 provided an assessment of the feasibility of the long range ballistic missile threats (released by NDIA in October 1998). Volume 2 uses aerospace industry judgments and experience to assess Third World cruise missile acquisition and development that is “emerging” as a real capability now. The analyses performed by industry under the broad title of “Feasibility of Third World Advanced Ballistic & Cruise Missile Threat” incorporate information only from unclassified sources. Commercial GPS navigation instruments, compact avionics, flight programming software, and powerful, light-weight jet propulsion systems provide the tools needed for a Third World country to upgrade short-range anti-ship cruise missiles or to produce new land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs) today. This study focuses on the question of feasibility of likely production methods rather than relying on traditional intelligence based primarily upon observed data. Published evidence of technology and weapons exports bears witness to the failure of international agreements to curtail cruise missile proliferation. The study recognizes the role LACMs developed by Third World countries will play in conjunction with other new weapons, for regional force projection. LACMs are an “emerging” threat with immediate and dire implications for U.S. freedom of action in many regions . -
Exploration of the Moon
Exploration of the Moon The physical exploration of the Moon began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made an impact on the surface of the Moon on September 14, 1959. Prior to that the only available means of exploration had been observation from Earth. The invention of the optical telescope brought about the first leap in the quality of lunar observations. Galileo Galilei is generally credited as the first person to use a telescope for astronomical purposes; having made his own telescope in 1609, the mountains and craters on the lunar surface were among his first observations using it. NASA's Apollo program was the first, and to date only, mission to successfully land humans on the Moon, which it did six times. The first landing took place in 1969, when astronauts placed scientific instruments and returnedlunar samples to Earth. Apollo 12 Lunar Module Intrepid prepares to descend towards the surface of the Moon. NASA photo. Contents Early history Space race Recent exploration Plans Past and future lunar missions See also References External links Early history The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (d. 428 BC) reasoned that the Sun and Moon were both giant spherical rocks, and that the latter reflected the light of the former. His non-religious view of the heavens was one cause for his imprisonment and eventual exile.[1] In his little book On the Face in the Moon's Orb, Plutarch suggested that the Moon had deep recesses in which the light of the Sun did not reach and that the spots are nothing but the shadows of rivers or deep chasms. -
Character of Signal and Noise Sources in Dispersive and Static Fourier Transform Remote-Sensing Raman Spectrometers
CHARACTER OF SIGNAL AND NOISE SOURCES IN DISPERSIVE AND STATIC FOURIER TRANSFORM REMOTE-SENSING RAMAN SPECTROMETERS A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE AUGUST 2020 By: Miles Jacob Egan Dissertation Committee Shiv K. Sharma, Chairperson Anupam K. Misra Przemyslaw Dera Jasper Konter David Jameson One man’s noise is another man’s data. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many people contributed in various ways to this thesis. I would like to thank my research advisors Shiv Sharma and Anupam Misra who supported my development as a graduate student both academically and financially. I would like to thank my committee members Przemyslaw Dera, Jasper Konter, David Jameson, Paul Lucey and Jeff Taylor for instructing me on mineralogy, elemental isotopic measurements, luminescence, remote-sensing, and petrology of the Moon and Mars. I would like to thank Tayro Acosta-Maeda for moral support and finding lost items. I would like to thank Mike Angel and his research group at the University of South Carolina for inviting me to visit his lab on two occasions and getting me started on research related to spatial heterodyne spectrometers. I would like to thank Roger Wiens for his support and direction in characterizing the SuperCam noise sources, and Ray Newell, Sam Clegg, Ann Ollila and Dawn Venhaus for offering their time and feedback on those characterizations. I would like to thank Nancy Hulbirt for her tireless help in producing publication-quality figures, often on short deadlines. -
The Effect of Time and Volume Stater of Bioethanol Content from Coconut Fiber Waste and Mengkudu Nutrient Content Compositions 8 in 100 Gr Mengkudu [8]
Copyright © 2019 American Scientific Publishers Journal of All rights reserved Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience Printed in the United States of America Vol. 16, 5224–5227, 2019 The Effect of Time and Volume Stater of Bioethanol Content from Coconut Fiber Waste and Mengkudu Netty Herawati∗, Muh A. P. Muplih, M. Iqbal Satriansyah, and Kiagus A. Roni Chemical Engineering Study Program, Faculty of Engineering, Muhammadiyah University of Palembang, Jalan Jendral Ahmad Yani 13 Ulu, Plaju, Palembang, 3011, Indonesia Mengkudu and coconut fiber are a plant which frequently find in Indonesia. Mengkudu is a plant that has many advantages and carbohydrate content as 51,67%. Coconut fiber has high enough cellulose content as 43,44%, with high carbohydrate content and high cellulose content they can be utilized as basic ingredient in the making of bioethanol. The purpose of this research is to determine the best condition in the process of making bioethanol from them. Bioethanol was made by fermentation which was helped by bactery, that was Saccaromyches cerevisae or often known as bread yeast. The results of this research were obtained fermentation time and volume of the stater used in making bioethanol from mengkudui fruit in order to get the best content bioetanol is in 60 hours using a stater volume of 10% which produces 6.26% bioethanol, while for the manufacture of bioethanol from waste Coconut coir is at 72 hours using a 6 gr volume of starch which produces bioethanol 13.80%. RESEARCH ARTICLE Keywords: Mengkudu, Coconut Fiber, Bioethanol, Time Variety, Stater Volume, Saccaromy chescerevisae. 1. INTRODUCTION as FGE [6]. Bioethanol is an alcohol compound with a The increase of human population and the develop of hydroxyl group (OH), 2 carbon atoms C, with the chem- industry are directly proportional with the increase of ical formula C2H5OH, which is made by sugar fermen- dependency number with oil fuel. -
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SIX DECADES OF GUIDED MUNITIONS AND BATTLE NETWORKS: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS Barry D. Watts Thinking Center for Strategic Smarter and Budgetary Assessments About Defense www.csbaonline.org Six Decades of Guided Munitions and Battle Networks: Progress and Prospects by Barry D. Watts Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments March 2007 ABOUT THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND BUDGETARY ASSESSMENTS The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is an independent, nonprofit, public policy research institute established to make clear the inextricable link between near-term and long- range military planning and defense investment strategies. CSBA is directed by Dr. Andrew F. Krepinevich and funded by foundations, corporations, government, and individual grants and contributions. This report is one in a series of CSBA analyses on the emerging military revolution. Previous reports in this series include The Military-Technical Revolution: A Preliminary Assessment (2002), Meeting the Anti-Access and Area-Denial Challenge (2003), and The Revolution in War (2004). The first of these, on the military-technical revolution, reproduces the 1992 Pentagon assessment that precipitated the 1990s debate in the United States and abroad over revolutions in military affairs. Many friends and professional colleagues, both within CSBA and outside the Center, have contributed to this report. Those who made the most substantial improvements to the final manuscript are acknowledged below. However, the analysis and findings are solely the responsibility of the author and CSBA. 1667 K Street, NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 331-7990 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEGEMENTS .................................................. v SUMMARY ............................................................... ix GLOSSARY ………………………………………………………xix I. INTRODUCTION ..................................................... 1 Guided Munitions: Origins in the 1940s............. 3 Cold War Developments and Prospects ............ -
Extended-Range Scud
Flashback to the Past: North Korea’s “New” Extended-Range Scud By Markus Schiller1 and Robert H. Schmucker2 November 8, 2016 Summary At 12:14 p.m. on September 5, 2016, North Korea launched three missiles within one minute of each other from a highway south of Pyongyang. All three launches were successful; the missiles reportedly each covered a distance of 1,000 km and landed about 240 km west of Okushirito Island, part of the Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido. The tests marked the first public demonstration of this missile, but the weapon itself is not new. Rumors surfaced more than 15 years ago that North Korea possessed this missile, and strong indications exist that it was part of a massive transfer of Soviet technology and know-how to the DPRK in the 1990s. 1 Dr.-Ing. Markus Schiller, ST Analytics GmbH, 80331 Munich, Germany, [email protected] 2 Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Robert H. Schmucker, Schmucker Technologie, 80469 Munich, and Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany, [email protected] A 38 North Special Report Figure 1. The missile launches of September 5, 2016. (Photo: KCNA) Technical Analysis KCNA published footage of the September 5 missile tests, showing three missiles lifting off in rapid succession from three transporter-erector-launchers (TELs) with less than a minute between the first and second launch and only a few seconds between the second and third. www.38North.org 2 A 38 North Special Report Figure 2. Launch site. The launch video was recorded from a distance, making the three TELs and the tunnel entrances look closer together than they actually were. -
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Malshall Space Flight Center, Alabama
NASA TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM NASA TM X-53973 SPACE FLIGHT EVOLUTION By Georg von Tiesenhausen and Terry H. Sharpe Advanced Systems Analysis Office June 30,1970 NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Malshall Space Flight Center, Alabama MSFC - Form 3190 (September 1968) j NASA TM X-53973 I [. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5. REPORT DATE June 30,1970 Space Flight Evolution 6. PERFORMlNG ORGANIZATION CODE PD-SA 7. AUTHOR(S) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT # Georg von Tiesenhausen and Terry H. Sharpe I 3. PERFORMlNG ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS lo. WORK UNIT, NO. Advanced Systems Analysis Office Program Development 1 1. CONTRACT OR GRANT NO. Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama 35812 13. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVEREC 2. SPONSORING AGENCY NAME AND ADDRESS Technical Memorandum 14. SPONSORING AGENCY CODE I 15. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 16. ABSTRACT This report describes a possible comprehensive path of future, space flight evolution. The material in part originated from earlier NASA efforts to defme a space program in which earth orbital, lunar, and planetary programs are integrated. The material presented is not related to specific time schedules but provides an evolutionary sequence. The concepts of commonality of hardware and reusability of systems are introduced as keys to a low cost approach to space flight. The verbal descriptions are complemented by graphic interpretations in order to convey a more vivid impression of the concepts and ideas which make upthis program. 17. KEY WORDS 18. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT STAR Announcement Advanced Systems Analysis Office 19. SECURITY CLASSIF. (of this rePmt> (20. SECURITY CLA ;IF. (of this page) 121. NO. OF PAGES 122. -
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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89760-0 - The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957 Asif A. Siddiqi Index More information Index 09 rocket, 148–150, 181 Anarchist-Biocosmists, 107–108 212 winged torpedo, 177, 179–180, 183 Andrews, James, 7 216 surface-to-air rocket, 179–180, 183 anti-ballistic missiles, 250 218 rocket-plane, 170–171, 180–181, 183 Antwerp, 208 218–1 rocket-plane, 183, 185 Aristotle, 77 301 air-launched rocket, 179, 183 Arkhangel’sk, 146 601 rocket-plane, 183, 185 Arsenal Factory, 234 604 long-range missile, 183, 186 art and space culture in the Soviet era, 97–107 Abramov, Anatolii, 344 Artem’ev, Vladimir, 128 Abramovich, Genrikh, 204n25, 205, Artsimovich, Lev, 304 209–210, 221 Askania, 205, 227 Academy of Artillery Sciences, 254, 296 Association of Inventors (AIIZ), 92–97 Academy of Sciences (Imperial), 23, 26, Association of Russian Revolutionary 30–32, 34, 46 Painters, 110 Academy of Sciences (Soviet), 8, 46–47, 56, Association of (Self-Educated) Naturalists, 58, 59–60, 73, 109, 143n100, 153, 251, 56 255n36, 256, 264, 278n87, 285, 287, astronomy, 19–20, 24, 30–31, 32, 34, 38, 306, 310, 314–320, 324, 329, 331, 334, 39, 40, 41, 50, 53, 56, 57, 134, 195, 300, 338, 340, 341, 343, 346–349, 361; and 308, 318, 342 Tsiolkovskii, 23, 47, 48, 70–71, 295, Atlas ICBM, 243, 286 298–301, 304, 317–318, 330, 366 atom bomb (Soviet program), 11, 14, 214, Aelita (movie), 75, 100–102, 103, 110 217, 218, 219, 232–233, 234, 241–248, Aelita (novel), 83, 97, 99–100, 103 249, 266, 268–270, 271, 273, 275, Aeroflot, -
Acoustic Shaping, Inc: Manufacturers in Mars Orbit
PROPOSAL AND BUSINESS PLAN SUBMITTED TO THE 1999 "NASA MEANS BUSINESS" STUDENT COMPETITION ACOUSTIC SHAPING, INC: MANUFACTURERS IN MARS ORBIT By the Georgia Tech team Sam Wanis, Don Changeau, Justin Hausaman, Ashraf Charania, Catherine Matos, Richard Ames DECEMBER 1998 I. Proposal Summary The Georgia Tech team proposes a Business Plan for a technical concept which they have demonstrated in '97 and '98 NASA Microgravity flight-tests: Acoustic Shaping as a means of non- contact manufacturing in Space. Acoustic Shaping will offer flexible manufacturing of pressure vessels and precision-formed components using raw material obtained from moons and asteroids. The customers are the space-faring construction industry, as well as bio-engineering companies of the 21st century. Material from lunar and asteroid-based mines will be shipped to manufacturing facilities in Earth and Mars orbit. Finished products will be delivered using aerodynamic decelerators to customers on planetary surfaces, or used in the construction of space station modules and vehicles for other missions. By reducing the cost of manufactured components to a fraction of the cost of Earth-built or machined components, ASI will provide an enabling resource for human exploration of the Solar system. A systematic Implementation Plan is laid out to develop ASI as the aerospace construction industry of the 21st century. From its already-demonstrated technical foundations, the Plan reaches out using the student team's projections of the evolving space industry. This Plan is used to convey a sampling of Georgia Tech's capabilities and interests in NASA's HEDS mission, across disciplines and levels. The team has won support from faculty research teams across the School of Aerospace Engineering, the Dupree College of Business and the GT-Emory School of Biomedical Engineering, each of which brings research and curricular capabilities to this mission. -
JBIS Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
JBIS Journal of the British Interplanetary Society VOL. 66 No. 5/6 MAY/JUNE 2013 Contents On the Possibility of Detecting Class A Stellar Engines using Exoplanet Transit Curves Duncan H. Forgan Asteroid Control and Resource Utilization Graham Paterson, Gianmarco Radice and J-Pau Sanchez Application of COTS Components for Martian Surface Exploration Matthew Cross, Christopher Nicol, Ala’ Qadi and Alex Ellery In-Orbit Construction with a Helical Seam Pipe Mill Neill Gilhooley The Effect of Probe Dynamics on Galactic Exploration Timescales Duncan H. Forgan, Semeli Papadogiannakis and Thomas Kitching Innovative Approaches to Fuel-Air Mixing and Combustion in Airbreathing Hypersonic Engines Christopher MacLeod Gravitational Assist via Near-Sun Chaotic Trajectories of Binary Objects Joseph L. Breeden jbis.org.uk ISSN 0007-084X Publication Date: 24 July 2013 Notice to Contributors JBIS welcomes the submission for publication of suitable technical articles, research contributions and reviews in space science and technology, astronautics and related fields. Text should be: Figure captions should be short and concise. Every figure 1. As concise as the scientific or technical content allows. used must be referred to in the text. Typically 5000 to 6000 words but shorter (2-3 page) papers 2. Permission should be obtained and formal acknowledgement are also accepted called Technical Notes. Papers longer made for use of a copyright illustration or material from than this would only be accepted when the content demands elsewhere. it, such as a major subject review. 3. Photos: Original photos are preferred if possible or good 2. Mathematical equations may be either handwritten or typed, quality copies. -
Report- Non Strategic Nuclear Weapons
Federation of American Scientists Special Report No 3 May 2012 Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons By HANS M. KRISTENSEN 1 Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons May 2012 Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons By HANS M. KRISTENSEN Federation of American Scientists www.FAS.org 2 Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons May 2012 Acknowledgments e following people provided valuable input and edits: Katie Colten, Mary-Kate Cunningham, Robert Nurick, Stephen Pifer, Nathan Pollard, and other reviewers who wish to remain anonymous. is report was made possible by generous support from the Ploughshares Fund. Analysis of satellite imagery was done with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Image: personnel of the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base in Italy load a B61 nuclear bomb trainer onto a F-16 fighter-bomber (Image: U.S. Air Force). 3 Federation of American Scientists www.FAS.org Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons May 2012 About FAS Founded in 1945 by many of the scientists who built the first atomic bombs, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is devoted to the belief that scientists, engineers, and other technically trained people have the ethical obligation to ensure that the technological fruits of their intellect and labor are applied to the benefit of humankind. e founding mission was to prevent nuclear war. While nuclear security remains a major objective of FAS today, the organization has expanded its critical work to issues at the intersection of science and security. FAS publications are produced to increase the understanding of policymakers, the public, and the press about urgent issues in science and security policy. -
Revista MILITARA 1 2019
MINISTERUL APĂRĂRII AL REPUBLICII MOLDOVA ACADEMIA MILITARĂ A FORŢELOR ARMATE „ALEXANDRU CEL BUN” STUDII DE SECURITATE ŞI APĂRARE Nr. 1 (21) / 2019 Ministerul Apărării al Republicii Moldova Academia Militară a Forţelor Armate „Alexandru cel Bun” Revista Militar= Studii de securitate şi apărare Nr. 1 (21) / 2019 Chişinău, 2019 Revista Militar= Studii de securitate şi apărare. Publicaţie ştiinţifică. Nr. 1 (21) /2019 Fondator: Academia Militară a Forţelor Armate „Alexandru cel Bun” Redactor-şef: colonel (r) Constantin Manolache, doctor habilitat în ştiinţe politice, conferenţiar universitar Secretar responsabil: locotenent-colonel (r) Igor Sofronescu, doctor în ştiinţe tehnice, conferenţiar universitar Colegiul de redacţie: maior Marin Butuc, doctor în filologie Svetlana Cebotari, doctor în ştiinţe politice colonel Vitalie Ciobanu, doctor în istorie colonel (r) Valeriu Cuşnir, doctor habilitat în drept, profesor universitar Chen Hui, doctor habilitat în literatură (Republica Populară China) Mikola Jelezneak, doctor în filologie, conferenţiar universitar (Ucraina) Victor Juc, doctor habilitat în politologie, profesor cercetător colonel (r) Constantin Moştoflei, doctor în ştiinţe militare (România) Alexandru Roșca, academician Gheorghe Rusnac, academician Antonio Sandu, doctor habilitat în filosofie, profesor universitar (România) colonel (r) Mircea Tănase, doctor în științe militare (România) Pantelimon Varzari, doctor habilitat în politologie, profesor cercetător Ion Xenofontov, doctor în istorie Liu Zaiqui, doctor habilitat în istorie (Republica