SPACE WAR BUDGET UNVEILED

$75.9 mil­lion to shut down enemy satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tions. $84.6 mil­lion for projects like relay mir­rors that would re-​​target laser beams in space. $15 mil­lion for weapons that ram into satel­lites and other “space con­trol” efforts.
That’s just a small sam­ple of what the Pentagon plans to spend on space war research next year, accord­ing to a study from the Center for Defense Information.
“It is clear,” the report reads, “that the United States is fund­ing R&D that could, and in some cases intends to, pro­vide capa­bil­i­ties in the next decade or so, to fight war in, from and through space.”

April 19th, 2004 | Space | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.