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Popular Mechanics
February 14, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Satellite Shot Offers Navy Key Space Defense Trial: How It Works The Pentagon today announced that a Navy warship has been tasked with shooting down a failing United States spy satellite that, if left alone, was expected to hit Earth within weeks.   |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Carl Hoffman |
China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond. |
National Defense
July 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Taking Out the Trash: What Can Be Done About Space Debris? What goes up doesn't necessarily come down when it comes to manmade objects orbiting the planet. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2005
DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems. |
National Defense
July 2014
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit. |
National Defense
April 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Congress Ponders Action After Chinese Anti-Sat Test After the Chinese demonstrated their ability to destroy enemy spacecraft, analysts say U.S. reliance on satellites and make them a weak link in our defenses. |
National Defense
June 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Faces Daunting Task to Determine What's Happening in Space The Air Force needs to monitor to have a complete picture of what is happening to the thousands of orbiting systems that circle the planet. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2005
Tim Shorrock |
U.S. Deploys Missile Defense System The rockets may not glare and bombs may not burst in the air but the Bush administration is forging ahead with construction of what it terms an "operational" missile defense system. |
National Defense
July 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Troubled Space-Based Infrared Satellite Program Finally Gets Off the Ground On May 7, the Air Force successfully sent to geosynchronous orbit GEO-1, the first SBIRS satellite. It was a long, tortuous road, lasting some 15 years with a price tag that will come to $10.4 billion. |
National Defense
December 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Murky Picture of What's Happening in Space Worries Air Force Officials There is a deterrent value to space situational awareness that doesn't grab the attention it should. |
National Defense
September 2013
Steff Thomas |
Safe Rocket Fuel Could Have Military Applications NASA is testing a green fuel that could cut mission costs and potentially raise performance by 50 percent, a program official said. |
Wired
February 2006
Patrick Radden Keefe |
I Spy Amateur satellite spotters can track everything government spymasters blast into orbit. Except the stealth bird codenamed Misty. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 1999
Stephen M. Portz - Space Coast Middle School |
Satellite Technologies in the Classroom ...Though the data is often not in real time, the ease of accessibility, the range and quantity of images, and the archival capabilities of the Internet make the use of satellite imagery a great educational activity... |
Wired
April 2002
Bruce Sterling |
Peace Is War Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes... |
Wired
April 2001
Alex Markels |
The Next Wave Ships from Norway, rockets from Russia, techspertise from Seattle. Together, they slingshot satellites off a floating platform on the equator - and set the stage for a new kind of company, built on international brainpower... |
Popular Mechanics
February 9, 2009
Glenn Reynolds |
Can Obama Ban Space Weapons Successfully? Soon after President Obama took office, the White House Web site stated that the administration would seek a worldwide ban on weapons interfering with military and commercial satellites. |
Popular Mechanics
August 28, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Inside U.S. Missile Defense Tech--and (Perhaps) a New Cold War The U.S. ballistic missile defense shield has been up and running since 2004, and it's growing. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2001
Joe Conason |
The rigged missile defense test The target destroyed in the "successful" defense shield test contained a global positioning satellite beacon that made it easier to detect. Why has the media mostly ignored the story? |
National Defense
April 2013
Sandra I. Erwin |
Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders' gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications. |
National Defense
January 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge. |
National Defense
June 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Works on Vision of Affordable Space The words "affordable" and "national security space" systems are not often paired together. |
National Defense
March 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2004
J.R. Wilson |
Ballistic Missile Defense Looks to the Future Command centers that will help guide ballistic missile defense efforts are providing opportunities for a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf computers, displays, and high-speed networking. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2007
John McHale |
Track It, Destroy It The key to any successful missile-defense shield is the ability of the sensors to track the missile accurately. Recent missile tests prove that an effective missile-defense shield is closer than ever before. |
National Defense
July 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Military Looks to Small Satellites as Costs for Large Spacecraft Grow After some 50 years of launching large, complex, multi-million dollar spacecraft, the military and industry are rethinking the way satellites are built and acquired. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Orbital Liftoff Delayed Will a recovery in commercial satellites come soon enough to boost Orbital's earnings? |
National Defense
January 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Space Command Looks To Fill Communication Gaps as Budgets Tighten "Doing more without more," -- the mantra coming from the office of the secretary of defense -- is a challenge for the Air Force as it tries to keep pace with growing demands for its satellite communications. |
Wired
April 2002
George Lewis & Theodore Postol |
Shoot To Kill Two MIT rocket scientists have a dire warning for Washington: The Bush plan for national missile defense won't work. Here's one that will... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2006
John McHale |
Sensors Light Path to Defeating Incoming Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles. |
National Defense
February 2016
Jon Harper |
Homeland Missile Defense Projects Remain in Limbo Uncertainty surrounds the future of homeland missile defense at a time of budget constraints and technology challenges. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
National Defense
March 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy Prepares to Put Aegis Ships `On Alert' The Navy is speeding up preparations to deploy a sea-based missile defense system by early 2005. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Erik Sofge |
Under-the-Radar Progress at Missile Defense Agency Missile defense hit center stage as President Bush and Vladimir Putin traded words at the G8 Summit, but a dramatic test recently marked a milestone for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Sandra Upson |
U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2012
Bedrossian et al. |
Overclock My Satellite Sophisticated algorithms boost satellite performance on the cheap |
