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Senate Adds Millions for ASAT, Space Laser
By Frank Sietzen, Jr.
Washington - May 18, 2000 - The Senate Armed Services Committee ended
its FY2001 authorizations by boosting spending on military space
programs and technologies by $98.2 million, chairman Sen. John Warner's
office announced last week (R-VA.).
But it remains to be seen if the Clinton administration will spend the
additional funds authorized should they ultimately end up in the final
version of the defense spending bill to emerge from Congress this
summer.
Among the projects boosted is an Army anti-satellite space weapon that
was one of only three defense projects targeted for a line item veto by
Clinton in 1996. The veto power was since ruled unconstitutional by the
U.S. Supreme Court.
The Senate committee authorized $30 million more in spending on a
Space-Based Laser (SBL) project which if ever built and flown may
require changes in strategic arms agreements between the United States
and Russia.
The project, which is among the few parts of President Ronald Reagan's
1983 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) still surviving in research form
under Clinton, would launch a prototype space laser for flight testing
aboard the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle in the latter part of the
decade.
Space tests would determine if an operational version would be launched
to destroy ascending missiles attacking the U.S. or allied forces. The
laser system might also be used against orbiting satellites.
The Clinton administration has approved only research funds for the
project and has repeatedly delayed any decision on whether to proceed to
construction and flight testing of prototype designs.
The Senate also voted to authorize a $12 million boost in spending for a
military microsatellite technology program, previously identified as
Clementine II.
The project was the second defense-related space program, along with the
anti-satellite system and a research project for military spaceplanes,
killed by the three 1996 White House vetoes.
The microsatellite program is focused on developing miniaturized
sensors, buses, and related technologies for future generations of
reconnaissance and observation satellites and space platforms.
Also added was $25 million in additional spending for Army space control
technology, and $15 million more for a U.S. Air Force program to develop
a space maneuver vehicle.
The satellite would be a reusable spacecraft capable of moving among
different orbits to deploy weapons and minisatellites. The SMV designs
could also call for reusable satellites that either can be returned to
Earth or parked in space for different missions. Some SMV designs call
for servicing by a piloted military spaceplane.
The Congressional action wasn't the first time additional money was
funded for military space technology and research during the Clinton
administration.
But the Pentagon refused to spend any appropriated increases during
either the tenure of Defense Secretaries Les Aspin or William Perry.
Under current secretary William Cohen the centralized office of space
management in the Pentagon was abolished in 1997 in a cost cutting move
many attributed to a lack of priorities for space by Cohen's team.
A Senate-appointed panel headed by former Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld is conducting a review of defense and national security space
management and is scheduled to make a series of recommendations for
future directions in military space to the incoming Presidential
administration and new U.S. Congress early next year.Links:
Lasers at TRW
Space Lasers at FAS
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Megawatt Laser Test Brings Space Based Lasers One Step Closer
Redondo Beach - April 26, 2000 - In a demonstration of the rising
maturity of high-energy lasers, TRW has conducted a test of the Alpha
high-energy laser that produced a 25 percent increase in the laser's
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