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November 1999 Space News

  • Lockheed Martin Delivers Upgraded Air Force Communications Satellite To Cape For January Launch Lockheed Martin 30 Nov 1999 -- An Air Force Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) spacecraft with significant performance upgrades was recently shipped by prime contractor Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space to Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., for a launch tentatively scheduled in January.
  • LOCKHEED MARTIN BUILDS FIRST "STRETCHED" CENTAUR FOR NEXT-GENERATION ATLAS Lockheed Martin 30 Nov 1999 -- In a ceremony featuring its new stretched Common Centaur upper stage, Lockheed Martin Astronautics displayed the first built of its larger Centaur tanks that will fly atop the company's Atlas IIIB and Atlas V next-generation rockets.
  • STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT 30 November 1999 -- I have signed into law H.R. 3194, the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 2000. The bill includes $264 million to expand HHS' bioterrorism initiative.
  • White House Sets Rules for Use of Investigational Drugs to Protect Troops American Forces Press Service 29 November 1999 -- The White House, DoD and the FDA concur that investigational new drugs can and should continue to be viable options for force protection. President Clinton made it official Sept. 30 by issuing Executive Order 13139, which spells out ground rules for giving such drugs to service members -- with or without their consent.
  • A divine lift-off for China The Economist 27 November 1999 -- As Mr Pike points out, perhaps it is better to have a China that sees spaceships, rather than just missiles, as the coin of international prestige, and as an occupation for its engineers.
  • China to send man to space People's Daily November 23, 1999 -- China will need to launch fewer unmanned space flights than what the United States and Russia undertook before it will be able to send its astronauts into space, a senior Chinese space expert claimed.
  • CHINA / SPACE Voice of America 22 November 1999 -- : China's national pride over the weekend's successful first space launch was reflected Monday in the media throughout the country.
  • CHINA LAUNCHES UNMANNED SPACECRAFT CBS MORNING NEWS 22 November 1999 -- Mr. PIKE: The Chinese-piloted space program today is basically where we were in the early 1960s. They have nothing resembling our space shuttle, and they're obviously very far away from being able to do Apollo.
  • China moves a step closer to a manned space mission USA TODAY November 22, 1999 "They're doing their homework, as they should. I'd assume they'll do one more flight test in December and then probably in the first half of next year do the manned flight," says Charles Vick, an expert on China's program at the Federation of American Scientists
  • China Plans to Join an Exclusive Club Newsweek, November 29, 1999 -- Beijing's most compelling reason for pursuing manned space flight is to prove its "big-power status." Says John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists: "Putting a man in space with its own rockets visibly demonstrates China has stood up."
  • China fired up to join superpowers in space BY SETH BORENSTEIN San Jose Mercury News November 22, 1999 -- ``The spacecraft is a Russian spacecraft with Chinese characteristics,'' said John Pike, space policy director for the Federation of American Scientists.
  • Chinese Test Craft For Manned Orbits By Michael Laris Washington Post November 22, 1999 -- "The fact that they were successful is a major step forward," said Charles Vick, an expert on space issues at the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists who said China could send an animal into space as early as next month and a person before the middle of next year. The Chinese tested "everything but having a man on board . . . The launch vehicle and the spacecraft worked together as they should."
  • Navy Theater Wide SM-3 Rocket Motor Test 23 November 1999 -- STANDARD Missile-3 (SM-3) Third Stage Rocket Motor successfully tested for Navy Theater Wide Program. Following a successful demonstration of FTR-1, the FTR-2 flight test will add a kinetic warhead with a live Solid Divert and Attitude Control capability
  • DoD News Briefing Monday, November 22, 1999 -- We think that in the new global environment of smaller, more radical states, deterrence may not work with the same effectiveness that it has over the last 40 years, and therefore we're contemplating the idea of a very limited national missile defense system that would protect us against a handful of missiles.
  • China Successfully Launches First Experimental Spacecraft People's Daily Sunday, November 21, 1999 - China's first experimental spacecraft, part of the country's manned space flight program, touched down in the central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in north China at 3:41 a.m. (Beijing time) on November 21, successfully concluding the first flight of the system.
  • Top Chinese Authorities Commend Successful Experiment of First Spaceflight People's Daily Sunday, November 21, 1999 - According to the telegram, the success marks a new step for China's space industry and is of great significance to boosting the country's high-technology development and arousing the enthusiasm of all ethnic groups.
  • 21-hour voyage of China's first spacecraft successful(Xinhua) 21 November 1999 -- The spacecraft was landed with loadfulls of scientific experiment data, after a space voyage of 21 full hours for China's first spacecraft.
  • Expert on China's space program (Xinhua) 21 November 1999 -- It is significant for China to develop manned spaceflight technology, the expert said, as it will strengthen the country's comprehensive national strength, promote the development of science and technology, enhance national prestige, boost the nation's sense of pride and cohesiveness.
  • Anthrax misinformation puts airmen at risk Air Force Print News 17 Nov 1999 -- Many service members -- active, Guard and Reserve -- may have jeopardized their military careers due to information gained from potentially unreliable sources.
  • PRESS BRIEFING BY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR SAMUEL "SANDY" BERGER November 17, 1999 -- The President said sometime ago that he would decide sometime next year whether to proceed with a national missile defense directed towards terrorist rogue states, based upon four criteria, four issues that he'll take into account. One, the threat, what is the level of threat that we face? Two, the technological feasibility of this very complex undertaking. General Shelton has described this as being like a bullet shooting at a bullet. Three, the cost. And, fourth, its overall impact on security, including arms control.
  • DoD News Briefing November 16, 1999 -- We believe that we are on track with the next flight test scheduled for January so that our goal is to provide a series of data and definitive test results so that a decision can be made, not earlier than next summer, on a deployment readiness review.
  • MEADS INTERNATIONAL SIGNS $9.5 MILLION TRANSITION EFFORT CONTRACT Lockheed Martin 15 Nov 1999 -- Good news was announced for MEADS International when leaders signed a $9.5 million contract. The contract enables the team to begin a six-month Transition Effort (TE) for development of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS)--an effort that will transition to a three-year Risk Reduction Effort (RRE) technology development program to begin in the spring of next year.
  • New Spy Satellites At Risk Because Funding Is Uncertain, Pentagon Told By Vernon Loeb and Walter Pincus Washington Post November 12, 1999 -- The capabilities of the new optical and radar satellites remain highly classified. But John Pike, an intelligence expert at the private Federation of American Scientists, said he believed the optical satellites would circle the globe at an altitude of about 1,000 miles, twice that of current satellites, enabling them to stay over targets for half an hour instead of just five minutes.
  • Boeing, Astrotech Partnership Marks Latest Delta IV Program Development Boeing 11 Nov 1999 -- The Boeing Company and Astrotech Space Operations, Inc., of Titusville, Fla., have entered into a long-term partnership to support the Delta IV family of rockets, the next generation of Boeing expendable launch vehicles capable of lifting payloads up to 28,950 lbs. to geosynchronous orbit.
  • Proposed FMS to Republic of Korea - PATRIOT Advance Capability MEMORANDUM FOR CORRESPONDENTS No. 173-M November 9, 1999 -- The Republic of Korea has requested a possible sale of 14 PATRIOT Advance Capability 3 (PAC 3) fire units consisting of: 14 AN/MPQ-53 radar sets, 14 AN/MSQ-104 engagement control stations, 76 M091 launching stations, and 616 MIM-104D missiles. The estimated cost is $4.2 billion.
  • Proposed FMS to The Netherlands - PAC-3 PATRIOT Missiles MEMORANDUM FOR CORRESPONDENTS No. 172-M November 9, 1999 --- The Government of the Netherlands has requested a possible sale of 128 PATRIOT Advance Capability-3 (PAC-3) guided missiles and related elements of logistic support. The estimated cost is $515 million.
  • Anthrax Vaccine First of Many Force Health Protection Measures By Douglas J. Gillert American Forces Press Service 09 November 1999 -- Mandatory anthrax vaccinations are just the beginning of medical countermeasures DoD has planned to protect deployed service members.
  • DoD News Briefing November 4, 1999 - My understanding of what the Russians have is a 1970-vintage system designed to protect their national capital, Moscow. And it depends on using nuclear blasts in space to deflect, destroy, stop incoming missiles. It is not surprising that they would be looking at ways to modernize their system, given all of the technological developments that have occurred since the '70s.
  • DoD Works to Counter Chemical-Biological Threats By Linda D. Kozaryn American Forces Press Service 03 November 1999 -- Effective defense against chemical and biological attack will take more than individual protective suits and masks, DoD officials said.
  • JLENS receives Popular Mechanics award (Army News Service, Nov. 3, 1999) -- Popular Mechanics has chosen the Joint Land Attack Missile Elevated Netted Sensor System for a 2000 Design and Engineering Award.
  • DoD News Briefing November 02, 1999 -- There was another successful test of the Arrow anti-missile system in Israel yesterday.
  • Weapons of mass destruction subject of counterproliferation center's efforts Air University Public Affairs 1 Nov 1999 -- Air Force Counterproliferation Center at Maxwell provides counterproliferation courses, briefings, and materials to Air Force personnel and civilian leaders.
  • Arrow Weapon System Success Israel Aerospace Industries 01 Nov 1999 -- The system-wide test started with the launch of the target, simulating a ballistic missile, from a ship in the Mediterranean. The AWS radar detected the target, and the Fire Control Center issued the launch command to the ARROW II interceptor missile. The ARROW II launched successfully, acquired the target and destroyed it.



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