I’ve just spent the entire day en route home from Beijing, so this will be short. I arrived to find an e-mail from Wade Boese at ACA pointing out some of the less sane remarks in the Defense Science Board Task Force on Future Strategic Strike Forces Study (Feburary 2004). Wade passes along this passage: …
Kill the NFIRE, No Matter What Oberg Says
by | 2004-04-22 | No Comments
Jim Oberg is wrong to dismiss the controversy over the Near Field Infra Red Experiment, which will test a Missile Defense Agency kill vehicle in space, as the result of “careless usage of provocative terminology” by the Missile Defense Agency that has “converted a fairly routine upcoming military space test into a cause celebre for …
Albania to the Rescue
by | 2004-04-20 | No Comments
Just as news of the Spanish and Honduran pullouts from Iraq was giving “false comfort to terrorists” and evil-doers the world over, Albania announces it may increase its “71-member-strong contingent patrolling the northern city of Mosul under U.S. command.” “The public commitment from Tirana was bound to be welcome news to the United States after …
China launches small satellite
by | 2004-04-19 | No Comments
China successfully sent two new satellites, Experiment Satellite I (Shiyan 1) and Nano-satellite I (Nuoxing 1), into space early Monday with a Long March II C carrier rocket, according to the People/’s Daily. People/’s Daily hailed the launch as a “technological breakthrough in the country/’s development of small satellites.” The launch is welcome news for …
