This Study was produced by the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. It was requested by the Commander Air Force Space Command and approved by the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. It covers three topics, each of sufficient depth to be study of its own: Space Surveillance, Asteroid and Comet Impact Warning for Earth, and Space Debris. Space Surveillance is the unifying theme. Space Surveillance is a ...
This Study was produced by the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). It was requested by the Commander Air Force Space Command and approved by the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. It covers three topics, each of sufficient depth to be a study of its own: Space Surveillance, Asteroid and Comet Impact Warning for Earth, and Space Debris. NASA personnel predicted in 1978 that collisional cascading ...
Research was continued on the development of millimeter-wave tubes. The program to build a 100 W cw tube amplifier at W-band is described. The emphasis was on making the tools, parts, and equipment necessary to assemble the first rf tube. All possible assembly techniques were tried and proven. Construction of the first tube was started. Efforts were continued on a feasibility study of a 5 mm (55Gc) amplifier which eventually ...