How do you do, Joe? Find the room comfortable, do you? No complaints? In May, the Washington AeroSpace Briefing reported that MDA Director Trey Obering “appeared to imply that a controversial kill vehicle payload [for the Near Field Infra Red Experiment] that was canceled last summer due to technical risk could be reinstated.” I don’t …
FIA joins Misty on SpySat Budget Scaffold
by | 2005-08-22 | 2 Comments
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 …
