AAWSAP DIRD, Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellites, November 2010

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[33, 34]. At present, AFOSR is funding the Brazilian Air Force's hypersonic shock
tunnel study of laser Lightcraft propulsion in collaboration with Leik Myrabo's laser
propulsion group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) [35]. This author
recommends that the Department of Defense, in collaboration with NASA, return laser
Lightcraft propulsion R&D to the United States and restart the space launch test flight
demonstration program of the Air Force X-S0LR Lightcraft, which was originally
proposed by Dr. Frank Mead [34].
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