During last year’s budget process, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) objected to “a particular major funding acquisition program that I believe is totally unjustified and very wasteful and dangerous to national security.” Rockefeller was criticizing a “stealth” satellite named Misty, which I had previously noted wasn’t particularly stealthy. In fact, Misty 1 and Misty 2 were …
DIY ASAT
by | 2005-08-22 | 3 Comments
Iowa State students taking Aerospace Engineering 462: Design of Aerospace Systems had a novel idea for a course project: Design an air launched anti-satellite weapon. What is needed by the Air Force is a new and inexpensive design that improves upon the capabilities of the previously designed missile and re-extends the United States’ grasp on …
UNMOVIC's Future
by | 2005-08-19 | 1 Comment
From what I am being told, the UNSC will not make a decision about UNMOVIC’s future during its upcoming meeting. Whether or not to keep UNMOVIC or a similar organization has been a matter of debate for quite a while now. For example, Hans Blix has argued that such an organization could be useful in …
Nukehavistan
by | 2005-08-19 | 2 Comments
Several loyal readers have drawn my attention to a heretofore undetected nuclear threat, as reported by The Onion: U.S. Intelligence: Nukehavistan May Have Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON, DC—A report released Monday by the Defense Intelligence Agency suggests that there is reason to believe that the former Soviet republic of Nukehavistan may be manufacturing nuclear weapons. “New …
