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February 2000 Space News

  • Sea Launch Sets Sail for Second Commercial Mission Boeing 29 Feb 2000 -- The Sea Launch Commander and the Odyssey Launch Platform departed the Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach Harbor on February 27, for the Sea Launch Company's second commercial satellite launch, planned for March 12.
  • New communications system means 'portable' command and control for nuclear forces United States Strategic Command Public Affairs 29 Feb 2000 --- The newly fielded Single Channel Anti-jam Man Portable terminal -- called SCAMP -- communications system dramatically expands survivable command and control of U.S. nuclear forces.
  • ABL uses balloons to gather turbulence data Air Force Print News 29 Feb 2000 -- Balloons launched here and from Doha, Qatar, provide vital information for the Airborne Laser Program.
  • Maintenance crew critical to ABL testing (AFPN) 28 Feb 2000 -- Specialists from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland, along with the crews from Det. 2 and the 452nd at Edwards are doing high-altitude atmospheric turbulence measurements.
  • Kan kobles til rakettforsvar Bergens Tidende : 27.02.00 -- Den nye radaren i Vardø kan med enkle grep og på kort tid bli svært nyttig for USA i et nytt rakettforsvarssystem, sier John Pike i Føderasjonen av Amerikanske Forskere (FAS) til Bergens Tidende.
  • ORBITAL'S LAUNCH OF ITS TAURUS ROCKET POSTPONED Orbital Sciences Corp. 26 Feb 2000 -- Orbital's launch of its Taurus rocket has been delayed pending the resolution of a down-range issue related to the planned trajectory of the rocket. The launch will be rescheduled for a date no earlier than Saturday, March 4, 2000.
  • ORBITAL SET TO LAUNCH TAURUS ROCKET ON FEBRUARY 28 Orbital Sciences Corp. 25 Feb 2000 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced that it is in final preparations for the next launch of its Taurus¨ rocket, which will carry an experimental satellite for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) into orbit on Monday, February 28.
  • The Globus II Radar and Norwegian Surveillance Activities in the North 25 February 2000 - Due to the recent media interest in the Globus II radar, the Norwegian Minister of Defence, Mrs. Eldbjørg Løwer, wishes to issue the following statement.
  • Airborne Laser Platform Modification Begins Boeing 24 Feb 2000 -- Boeing technicians in Wichita, Kan., begin to lower the cargo door of the 747-400 Freighter -- YAL-1A Attack Laser -- after the door pins were removed, which attached the door to the aircraft. This milestone, achieved earlier this month, is the first major step toward modifying the wide-body aircraft into the Airborne Laser war-fighter system.
  • U.S. NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE PLANS UNDER EDITORIAL FIRE OVERSEAS Foreign Media Reaction 23 February 2000 -- In limited comment since last month's unsuccessful U.S. missile defense test over the Pacific Ocean, the majority of editorialists from Russia, Europe and East Asia remained critical of potential U.S. plans to build and deploy a national missile defense (NMD) system and related administration efforts to secure Moscow's agreement on amending the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
  • Crew gathers critical data for airborne laser program (AFPN) 18 Feb 2000 -- Preparations for future warfighting are happening now as a C-135E aircraft from Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., flies sorties from here to gather atmospheric measurements vital to the Airborne Laser program.
  • DOD officials disagree with House report on anthrax American Forces Press Service 18 Feb 2000 -- DOD officials said they have no intention of ending their program of mandatory anthrax vaccinations for service members, despite a House of Representatives panel's recommendation that the program should be suspended.
  • Snecma and P&W Sign MOU to Develop New Upper Stage Rocket Engine Pratt & Whitney 18 Feb 2000 -- Pratt & Whitney's (P&W) space propulsion operations and Snecma Moteurs' (Snecma) rocket engine division announced that the two companies have agreed to jointly develop a new, high technology upper stage rocket engine.
  • DoD Clarifies Exemptions to Anthrax Vaccination Program American Forces Press Service Feb 17, 2000 -- DoD officials are in the process of approving a policy that standardizes exemptions to the anthrax vaccination program. But, they said, they provided exemptions because it's "good medicine," not because of any concerns about the vaccine's safety or efficacy.
  • Statement of Rep. Christopher Shays February 17, 2000 -- Today we release an oversight report entitled, "The Department of Defense Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program: Unproven Force Protection." We conclude the program is not sustainable in its present form. It is an unrealistically broad undertaking built on a dangerously narrow scientific, medical and industrial base.
  • THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ANTHRAX VACCINE IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM: UNPROVEN FORCE PROTECTION Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform February 17, 2000 Because the anthrax vaccine is still being studied as a potential causative or contributing factor in Gulf War veterans illnesses, the Subcommittee measured the program against this standard: Any expanded use of the same vaccine should be undertaken only with the greatest care and only to the extent necessary. As currently designed and implemented, the anthrax vaccine program fails on both counts. The AVIP lacks a consistent standard of care and is designed to reach far beyond those at risk. The Subcommittee finds the AVIP a well-intentioned but overwrought response to the threat of anthrax as a biological weapon. Against the so-called "asymmetric" threats to US conventional military superiority posed by a growing range of chemical and biological weapons, the anthrax vaccine program represents a medical Maginot Line, a fixed fortification protecting against attack from only one direction.
  • DoD News Briefing - Dr. Sue Bailey, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) and Major General Randy West, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Anthrax and Biological Defense Thursday, February 17, 2000 -- The Department of Defense is very confident in the anthrax program that we have undertaken. We have a very safe and effective vaccine against a very deadly biologic agent that we know to be in the hands of many of our adversaries and could be used against our forces.
  • ANTHRAX VACCINATIONS Voice of America 17 February 2000 -- New questions are being raised about the U-S military's plan to inoculate all service personnel against the deadly biological agent anthrax.
  • MISSILE DEFENSE Voice of America 15 February 2000 -- A senior US defense official is warning a decision whether to deploy a national missile defense system should not be rushed.
  • Boeing Rocketdyne and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Partner To Develop New Upper-Stage Rocket Engine Boeing 14 Feb 2000 -- The Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business of The Boeing Company and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. have announced a long-term joint effort to design and develop a new liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen upper-stage engine to address the worldwide need for new, higher performing propulsion systems for the next-generation of expendable launch vehicles.
  • Iran, Iraq, N.Korea could be building arsenals for leverage By John Diamond Chicago Tribune February 14, 2000 -- "If one nuclear weapon gets through, you have more dead Americans than every other war put together," said John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists, a Washington-based group that follows national security issues. A president "is not going to bet the country" on the certainty that a national missile-defense system will work, he said.
  • The Next President's First Obligation By Henry Kissinger Washington Post February 9, 2000 Pg. 21 -- In my view, no administration serious about national security will be able to evade the need for missile defense. But an election year may not be the opportune time to choose the most effective option. In the light of recent ambiguous test results and imminent electoral preoccupations, it would be desirable to delay a final technical judgment until a new administration is in place.
  • Adverse reactions to anthrax vaccine remain minimal (AFPN) 09 February 2000 -- Despite concerns by some military members about adverse reactions to the anthrax immunization vaccine, the number of those reporting reactions remains low.
  • Biological Defenses On the Horizon By Linda D. Kozaryn American Forces Press Service 09 February 2000 -- DARPA launched the Biological Warfare Defense Program in 1996. Its goal is to develop technologies to thwart the use of biological warfare agents, including bacterial, viral, bioengineered organisms and toxins, by military opponents and terrorists.
  • MISSILE DEFENSES WILL NOT ELIMINATE NEED FOR NUCLEAR DETERRENCE By Jacquelyn S. Porth USIA 8 February 2000 -- Defense Secretary Cohen says the United States will continue to rely on nuclear deterrence to ensure that neither this nation nor its allies will ever be in a position of being blackmailed.
  • Globalstar Launch Aboard Boeing Delta II Achieves Operational Milestone Boeing 08 Feb 2000 -- A Boeing Delta II rocket delivered four Globalstar satellites to orbit, completing a 52-satellite launch program for the global-mobile telecommunications company Globalstar L.P.
  • Missile Defense Would Counter Nuclear Blackmail By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service 07 February 2000 -- The National Missile Defense program would allow the United States to defend against rogue states threatening international blackmail, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said here Feb. 5.
  • PAC-3 Intercept Test a Success U.S. Army Program Executive Office Air and Missile Defense Feb. 5, 2000 -- The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Army conducted a test of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., today at 7:09 a.m. mountain standard time. Preliminary test data indicate the test was successful.
  • PAC-3 Missile Intercepts Tactical Ballistic Missile Lockheed Martin 05 Feb 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control - Dallas, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Army conducted another successful flight of a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., this morning. The PAC-3 Missile intercepted and destroyed an incoming tactical ballistic missile.
  • PAC-3 INTERCEPT TEST RESCHEDULED U.S. Army Program Executive Office Air and Missile Defense Feb. 4, 2000 -- This test was postponed Thursday after an error in the launch sequence of the Hera target caused a mission delay.
  • Cohen, European Allies to Discuss National Missile Defense By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service 04 February 2000 -- National Missile Defense is an idea that must be sold, not only to the Russians and Chinese, but to America's European allies, said Defense Secretary William Cohen.
  • PAC-3 Intercept Test - Launch Postponed U.S. Army Program Executive Office Air and Missile Defense Feb. 3, 2000 -- The launch was postponed at 7:11 a.m. MST because of an error in the launch sequence of the target.
  • Boeing Delta II Globalstar Launch Will Open A New Century of Cape Launches Boeing 03 Feb 2000 -- The next Boeing Delta II launch will play a role in achieving an important operational milestone -- completing a 52-satellite launch program for the global telecommunications company Globalstar L.P.
  • International Launch Services and Lockheed Martin Astronautics' Atlas Rocket Provides Successful Ride to Orbit for HISPASAT 1C Lockheed Martin 03 Feb 2000 -- An Atlas rocket soared eastward above the Atlantic Ocean tonight carrying a Spanish commercial communications satellite to orbit for Madrid-based HISPASAT, a satellite communication systems provider for Europe and the Americas.
  • PAC-3 INTERCEPT TEST TO BE CONDUCTED AT WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE U.S. Army Program Executive Office Air and Missile Defense Feb. 2, 2000 -- To date, the PAC-3 missile has successfully completed four missions. The first two missions were developmental tests that consisted of missiles with special instrumentation packages in place of the seeker.
  • Sea Launch Signs with PanAmSat for Launch of Advanced Galaxy IIIC Boeing 02 Feb 2000 -- Sea Launch and the PanAmSat Corporation (NASDAQ: SPOT) announced their agreement for Sea Launch to deploy up to five new spacecraft using the Sea Launch rocket and launch platform. The agreement calls for the launch of the advanced Galaxy IIIC during the second quarter of 2001 and provides PanAmSat with the option for four additional Sea Launch missions through 2003.
  • PROVIDING CERTAIN COMMUNICATIONS IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD Marine Corps News - 01 February 2000 -- The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit's Army Navy/Tactical Satellite Communications Terminal-93B (AN/TSC-93) van, part of the Joint Task Force Enabler package, is the MEU's primary link to the world.



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