100 Lbs to Low Earth Orbit (LEO): Small-Payload Launch Options; JSR-98-140
McLean, VA: JASON, The MITRE Corporation, 2000. Reprint Edition. Wraps. 41 pages. Wraps. Illustrations (some in color). Diagrams. Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. Additional contributors are: R. Garwin, J. Katz, and J. Vesecky. Dr. Paul Dimotakis is the John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics at Caltech. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech. As a member of the Caltech faculty he advanced from Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, before being awarded the John K Northrop Chair. He and his co-workers have developed experimental facilities and laser diagnostics, and advances in signal processing, high-speed digital temporal- and image-data acquisition techniques, high-speed CCD imager design, and image-data processing. His research has included hydrodynamic stability, gasdynamic simulations, image-correlation techniques, aerooptics effects, and adaptive optics. JASON is an independent group of elite scientists which advises the United States government on matters of science and technology, mostly of a sensitive nature. The group was first created as a way to get a younger generation of scientists—that is, not the older Los Alamos and MIT Radiation Laboratory alumni—involved in advising the government. It was established in 1960 and has somewhere between 30 and 60 members. Its work first gained public notoriety as the source of the Vietnam War's McNamara Line electronic barrier. Although most of its research is military-focused, JASON also produced early work on the science of global warming and acid rain. Current unclassified research interests include health informatics, cyberwarfare, and renewable energy. For administrative purposes, JASON's activities are run through the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit corporation in McLean, Virginia, which operates seven Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) for the Federal Government of the United States. JASON typically performs most of its work during an annual summer study. Its sponsors include the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the U.S. Intelligence Community. Most of the resulting JASON reports are classified.
The name "JASON" is sometimes explained as an acronym, standing either for "July August September October November", the months in which the group would typically meet; or, tongue in cheek, for "Junior Achiever, Somewhat Older Now". However, neither explanation is correct; in fact, the name is not an acronym at all. It is a reference to Jason, a character from Greek mythology. The wife of one of the founders (Mildred Goldberger) thought the name given by the defense department, Project Sunrise, was unimaginative and suggested the group be named for a hero and his search. JASON studies have included a now-mothballed system for communicating with submarines using extremely long radio waves (Project Seafarer, Project Sanguine), an astronomical technique for overcoming the atmosphere's distortion (adaptive optics), the many problems of missile defense, technologies for verifying compliance with treaties banning nuclear tests, a 1979 report describing CO2-driven global warming, and the McNamara Line's electronic barrier, a system of computer-linked sensors developed during the Vietnam War which became the precursor to the modern electronic battlefield. Condition: Good.
Keywords: NASA, Launch Services, Small-Payload, Low Earth Orbit, Launch Vehicle, Pegasus Launcher, K-1, X-33, Hybrid Rocket
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