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Article: U.S. Air Force Plans Small Satellite Operations
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 20, 1998
CopyrightCopyright 1998 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The United States Air Force researchers are working on tiny
satellite operations to replace large ones for more reflexibility and
less vulnerability, the Defense News said in its latest issue.
The Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) have begun laying the technological groundwork
for such missions starting early next century, the weekly said in its
August 17-23 issue.
The Air Force early this year launched TechSat21, a two-phased
effort that would culminate in a three-satellite flight experiment in
2003, it said.
The Objective is to demonstrate that the functions of large and
complex spacecraft can be broken up among smaller, collaborating
spacecraft, it ...