News Categories

Strategic Weapons: December 15, 2000

Archives

Air Force Space Command has taken over the MSX (Mid-Course Space Experiment) from the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, which controlled it since 1996. Space Command is using it to monitor deep space military and commercial satellites. This has doubled the number of times each satellite is examined, and 80% of the "lost" satellites have been found. --Stephen V Cole

 

X

ad

Help Keep Us From Drying Up

We need your help! Our subscription base has slowly been dwindling.

Each month we count on your contributions. You can support us in the following ways:

  1. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
  2. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos.
  3. You can contribute to the health of StrategyPage.
Subscribe   Contribute   Close