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Pentagon pushingfor killer satellite development
United Press International
WASHINGTON — With Amer-
ican-Russian detente at a new low,
the Pentagon is pushing for develop
ment offuturistic weapons that could
destroy Soviet satellites in outer
space.
Administration officials said Fri
day the United States remains will
ing to resume the stalled U. S. -Soviet
negotiations on banning anti
satellite weapons. But these talks in
Helsinki do not seem likely to be
revived so long as tbe SALT II treaty
remains unratified.
Top Air Force officials now are an
xious to perfect space technology
that would allow the United States to
deploy an effective anti-satellite
weapon.
Such a weapon could deliver a ma
jor blow by knocking out Soviet com
munications, reconnaissance, navi
gation and other satellites.
At present, the Soviets lead the
United States in anti-satellite
weapons. They have tested a satellite
which maneuvers close to its target
and then explodes.
The U.S. concept is of a miniature
rocket which can be fired at an alti
tude of about 50,000 feet by an F-15
fighter to home in on a satellite target
and incapacitate it by physically
striking it.
The sources said the weapon does
not explode, nor does it use a nuclear
charge. They would not elaborate on
the homing sensor, which is highly
classified.
Other military space projects
under defense research programs
costing about $1 billion a year in
clude high energy lasers that might
be deployed on mountain tops to
knock out Soviet satellites in low
orbits.
The lasers would kill by overheat
ing the internal mechanisms and cir
cuitry of their targets. A major ques
tion is whether such lasers are cost-
effective,
The Air Force is studying the
problem of obtaining more routine
access to space.
the space shuttle being developed
by NASA is viewed as an important
interim step because it will allow the
United States to recover faulty satel
lites and repair them either in space
or on earth.
The Air Force and private manu
facturers are designing an entirely
new vehicle which may look some
thing like a giant Boeing 747 jetliner
but would weigh two million pounds
compared to the 747’s 750,000
pounds.
The vehicle could take off from a
runway, fly to a high altitude, release
a second vehicle which would blast
off into orbit, and return to earth.
This reuseable aerodynamic space
vehicle (RASV) could be deployed
about the year 2000, the sources
said.
Manned space flight possible for China
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PEKING — Chinese astronauts
are training at a special space center
near Shanghai to make China the
third country to launch man into
orbit, Shanghai newspapers dis
closed.
Publication of articles and photo
graphs of the astronauts marked the
first time China has confirmed it has
an active man-in-space program.
The astronauts were shown prac
ticing weightlessness, how to eat
fried rice and shrimp in outer space,
and performing other space chores.
"China’s astronauts flap their
wings on the verge of takeoff, ” said a
picture caption in the newspaper
Wen Hui Bad s Friday edition,
USSR launches satellite
for long distance telephone,
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Unilcd Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union
has launched a satellite to extend its
telephone and television communi
cations links in extreme northern
Siberia and remote regions of Soviet
Asia, the Tass news agency reported
Saturday.
The satellite, Molnia-1, was put
intoorbit Friday, Tass said. Its initial
orbit ranged in height from 287 to
24,498 miles.
Communications satellites nor-
.mally are placed in stationary orbits.
Tass did not say whether the satel
lite’s elliptical path would be made
circular, out said it carried a system
for “correction of the orbit.”
Tass said Molnia-1 had an orbit
time of 12 hours, 17 minutes.
It said the satellite “is designed to
ensure the exploitation of the system
of long-distance telephone and tele
graph radio communication and also
transmission of programs of the
U.S.S.R. central television to
the .. . network points, located in
areas of the extreme north, Siberia,
the Far East and Central Asia.”
which reached Peking Saturday.
Another newspaper, Jiefang
Ribao, published a photograph of a
small dog, saying the animal had re
turned to Chinese soil in a rocket,
indicating he had been launched into
space.
Neither newspaper said when
China would follow the Soviet Union
and the United States by sending its
first man into space.
Jiefang Ribao published an article
from the magazine Science Life de
scribing how a documentary film
company unit went to the space cen
ter to shoot a film.
The astronauts are training in a
building complex several hours by
car from Shanghai, the Science Life
reporter said.
“We saw their vibration, centri
fugal and shock force tests,” the re
porter said. “In one room there is a
simulated view of the universe. ”
The journalist said the astronauts
demonstrated how to eat dehydrated
Chinese food such as noodles, eggs,
shrimp and fried rice through a rub-
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China put its first satellite into
orbit in 1970 and has launched sever
al since. It was the fifth country to
send a satellite into space with its
own technology, following the Soviet
Union, the United States, France
and Japan.
In March 1978 the National Scien
ce Congress in Peking laid down a
seven-year research program, in
cluding plans for a manned labora
tory in outer space.
Vice Premier Fang Yi, administra
tor of China’s science proejets, said
March 29 that Chinese scientists had
been ordered to lay the groundwork
for a skylab program for space explor
ation.
The deputy chief of the armed
forces, Wu Xiuquan, told the delega
tion of visiting U.S. Defense Secret
ary Harold Brown last week that Chi
na was “researching” an astronaut
program “and this indeed is a possi
bility.”
But he said the program “is not
one of our high priorities. ”
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Iranians to lose
Winston privilege
United Press International
, TEHRAN, Iraa — Iranians will
soon lose the pleasure of puffing
away on Winston cigarettes. The Ira-
, nian tobacco company has canceled
, its contract to manufacture them
under license In Iran.
The state-controlled company said
Sunday the Winston contract hurt
. the production of domestic cigaret
tes and turned the firm into a sales
. agency for foreign products.
‘The present officials of the tobac-
i cocompany have put the attainment
, of self-sufficiency at the top of their
agenda,” a company statement said.
“Unfortunately, this company,
which could have been one of the
largest productive and economic
plants of the country, had been
turned into a sales agency for foreign
cigarettes.”
About 5 million Winston cigaret
tes were sold in 1969-70, but by
1977-78, the figure rose to 10 mil
lion, the company said.
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