Zenith Star
Zenith Star was a Directed-energy weapon that started development as part of the US Strategic Defense Initiative.[1]
It included the Alpha laser, a high energy hydrogen fluoride chemical laser, and the LAMP mirror which was a 7 segment adaptive optics mirror.[2]
Zenith Star was never put in orbit, but the Alpha LAMP Integration (ALI) project carried out some ground-based tests.[3]: 20
History
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Legacy
[edit]Around 1998 Space-Based lasers were reconsidered and led to the Space Based Laser - Integrated Flight eXperiment (SBL-IFX) project 2000-2002.[4][5]
See also
[edit]- Project Excalibur – Anti-missile system using an X-ray laser powered by a nuclear bomb
References
[edit]- ^ AND THEN THERE WAS ZENITH STAR. 1987
- ^ Zenith Star: An SDI demonstration 1987 2 pages, with 3 photos
- ^ Adaptive Optics Engineering Handbook
- ^ The Space-Based Laser Integrated Flight Experiment: Global Missile Defense in the Boost Phase Team SBL
- ^ Overview of the space-based laser (SBL) program J.F.Riker 2002
Further reading
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