James Benford presents his Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails at Space Access 2019. The Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails could enable an interstellar probe to alpha centauri ...

Defense officials are taking a step back from one of its most ambitious research goals: launching a massive neutral-particle-beam generator, essentially a ray gun, into space to fry the electronics of ...

The key innovation of our propulsion concept is the unique coupling of a neutral particle beam with a laser beam, a scheme which nearly eliminates thermal expansion and diffraction during beam ...

Defense officials want to test a neutral particle-beam in orbit in fiscal 2023 as part of a ramped-up effort to explore various types of space-based weaponry. They’ve asked for $304 million in the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This low power neutral particle beam ...

Using beam weapons to zap ballistic missiles has been a dream since Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative. Now the U.S. Missile Defense Agency is looking for technologies that will enable space-based ...

Dublin, Oct. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Directed Energy Weapon Systems Market: Focus on Technology (High Power Laser, High Power Microwave, Neutral Particle Beam), Platform (Ground-Based ...

US Defense Department researchers are dusting off an idea from old Sci-Fi novels: space-based ray guns that can blast enemy satellites and other targets in space. Michael Griffin, the Pentagon’s ...

For the first time, researchers from Tokyo University of Science have observed wave-like interference patterns from ...

Remote sensing involves examining a target in many different wavelengths, each one carrying different compositional and/or physical information. Of the six bands shown here, only radar uses “active” ...