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3 May 2006

Starfire Optical Range website: http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/SOR/

Air Force Directed Energy Directorate: http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/

Related Russian "Okno:"

http://enews.ferghana.ru/detail.php?id=95267645613.42,338,11358995

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/washington/03laser.html

New York Times, 3 May 2006

Administration Conducting Research Into Laser Weapon

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Source: Starfire Optical Range

An aerial view of Starfire, a government observatory in New Mexico where laser work is being done.

Another aerial view: http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/SOR/images/Facility%20Images/sorarea1.jpg

Auxiliary Beam Director: http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/SOR/images/Facility%20Images/abdaeriel.gif

By WILLIAM J. BROAD

[Excerpts]

The Bush administration is seeking to develop a powerful ground-based laser weapon that would use beams of concentrated light to destroy enemy satellites in orbit.

The largely secret project, parts of which have been made public through Air Force budget documents submitted to Congress in February, is part of a wide-ranging effort to develop space weapons, both defensive and offensive. No treaty or law forbids such work.

The laser research was described by federal officials who would speak only on the condition of anonymity because of the topic's political sensitivity. The White House has recently sought to play down the issue of space arms, fearing it could become an election-year liability.


Eyeballing
the
Starfire Optical Range
This sodium laser—being fired from the Starfire Optical Range on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico—is used with deformable optics to help eliminate atmospheric distortions when gathering images of objects in space.

http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/Gallery/Images/Full/Domes.jpg (50% reduction below)

Three green lasers are seen emanating from facilities at the Starfire Optical Range on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Lasers and deformable optics are used here to eliminate or minimize optical distortions caused by the Earth’s atmosphere.

http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/Gallery/Images/300W/SOR-3beam-300a.jpg (25% reduction below)

http://www.coseti.org/images/starfire.jpg

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The Starfire Optical Range is seen in this bird’s eye view. World-class research is conducted here in ground-based lasers and optical imaging technologies.

http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/Gallery/Images/Full/SOR-Aerial.jpg