Science

From the Sea to the Stars: A Chronicle of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Space-related Activities, 1944-2009 (2010 Edition)

Background The importance of space and space-related activities to support global military operations has expanded significantly over the past 50…

March 8, 2019

Advanced Propulsion Options For The Mars Cargo Mission, September 1989

Background This report summarizes the results of an evaluation of a variety of advanced low thrust propulsion options for the…

March 7, 2019

Alternative Propulsion Energy Sources, Forward Unlimited Contracted Research, 1983

Background The task was to survey the entire field of advanced propulsion to uncover and carry out a technical assessment…

February 14, 2019

MyUSDA Newsletters – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Background Each month, the USDA publishes the MyUSDA newsletter. Although many have been published online, it appears the USDA stopped…

February 8, 2019

Metamaterials and Invisibility Cloaking – Research Archive

Background In January of 2019, a list of 38 reports made under (or connected with) the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification…

February 1, 2019

History of Research in Subgravity and Zero-G at the Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico 1948-1958

Background The foreword offers a very interesting perspective into the pre-Apollo era, where weightlessness, had not yet been achieved: "Weightlessness,…

January 25, 2019

Perspective On One Decade Of Laser Propulsion Research At The Air Force Research Laboratory, November 1995-2005 (DVD)

Background This is a released video, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), from the Defense Technical Information Center…

January 18, 2019

The Biefield-Brown Effect, 2 May 1997

Background The phenomenon known as the Biefield-Brown effect was discovered around 1920 by Thomas Townsend Brown and first investigated in…

November 4, 2018

Beamed Energy Propulsion / Beamed Laser Energy Propulsion Documents

Background Beam-powered propulsion, also known as directed energy propulsion, is a class of aircraft or spacecraft propulsion that uses energy…

October 1, 2018

A Summary of the U.S. Navy Program and FY 1967 Progress in Weather Modification and Control, 1967

Background Research in support of the NWC weather modification program; Progress in engineering weather modification experiments by computer modelling; Project…

September 11, 2018