Laser Guided Lightning Rods
2008-Present
DARPA Project NIMBUS Lightning can cause delays in operations, disrupt communications, destroy assets, and generally pose a deadly threat to military [...]
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Triggered-Lightning Avoidance for Space Launches
1996-1998
Shown is a photograph (below) of a lightning flash that was triggered 49 seconds after the 1987 launch of the Atlas/Centaur-67, resulting in total des [...]
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Project Skyfire: Preventing Forest Fires with Cloud Seeding
1956 - 1967
The Project Skyfire cloud-seeding generator is designed to produce silver iodide nuclei for experiments performed in devising techniques for lightning [...]
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