No sooner did Congress hash out a compromise to terminate the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, then Billy Mullins (below)—an Air Force official with a title too wonky for even this blogger and kind of a letdown after yesterday’s image—tells Congress that DOD is going to go ahead and develop RNEP anyway. Here is what Mullins—who …
ANGELS
by | 2005-12-05 | No Comments
Keepin’ it work safe for the boyz and grrls with the .gov and .mil IPs … Jeremy Singer at Space News reports (Yahoo! has the full text) that the Air Force Research Laboratory is “planning a small experimental satellite that would orbit in close proximity to a host spacecraft and keep tabs on their surrounding …
Nuclear Cooperation with India
by | 2005-12-03 | No Comments
A week or so ago, Dave Ruppe at Global Security Newswire reported that … More than a dozen former senior U.S. nuclear arms control and nonproliferation officials and other experts recently expressed reservations about a potential U.S.-India nuclear energy deal, while a senior Republican legislator this week came out in favor of the agreemen Arms …
How bad things happen to bad space programs
by | 2005-12-02 | No Comments
The Pentagon appears to have a loose construct of time and savings when it comes to the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. Originally intended to give the United States guaranteed access to space, it instead has done in its seven painful years of existence nothing more than give government regulators a giant headache. An …
