In 1996 students developed a space-based program to detect and stop the spread of deserts.
Deterrence: The first phase system should be comprised of ground and space-based sensors and interceptor systems.
In the past only space-based telescopes could manage this trick and they are ludicrously expensive.
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Engineering and the City can and must work together, as another space-based example demonstrates.
One of these amendments would have foreclosed the option to deploy space-based anti-missile weapons.
At present, a relatively inexpensive yet highly effective space-based interceptor known as Brilliant Pebbles is within reach.
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Millennium Summit, Putin said the time had come for the world to halt discussion of space-based defense systems.
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He also emphasized the need for boost-phase defenses, for which sea-, air- and space-based weapons will be necessary.
Ground-based missile defense is especially costly and not nearly as effective as sea- and space-based systems would be.
Measurements undertaken with two space-based X-ray telescopes imaged the black hole at the centre of galaxy NGC 1365.
If this is the sort of story that ignites your imagination, why not look into a space-based report.
They've dreamed up wireless protocols, space-based options and even schemes that use the power lines coming into your house.
As early as 1989, for instance, in an article entitled "Space-based Solar Shield to Offset Greenhouse Effect, " James T.
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The same is even more true of the United States' economic power, which is inextricably dependent on space-based systems.
In Operation Desert Storm, Coalition forces enjoyed the uncontested use of space-based assets.
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These could involve ground-based anti-missile systems, airborne lasers and space-based sensors and, in due course, weapons (interceptors and directed energy).
Such considerations argue for an invigorated strategic defense program aimed at deploying such space-based defenses at the earliest possible time.
In 2002, China and Russia proposed a treaty banning the deployment of weapons in space or attacks against space-based objects.
Article V barred the development of the most efficient approaches to defending against long-range missiles (sea-, air- and space-based systems).
Of particular concern, however, is the virtual elimination of work on space-based missile defenses in the present MDA budget and out-year plan.
Another article revealed Chinese interest in airborne and space-based synthetic aperture radar.
We should then move on to fully develop a space- based system.
Arguably, the Blackbird has greater survivability than most U.S. space-based reconnaissance systems.
Directed energy weapons such as lasers and particle beams, (either ground-based or space-based, having sufficient power to damage satellites or their sensors).
Space-based systems are especially useful in the vast distances of the Pacific, which is one reason Pentagon leaders highlighted their priority last week.
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As we depend more and more on space-based technologies, this poses a real economic problem that governments have a responsibility to manage well.
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This will depend on such technologies as space-based surveillance, direct broadcasting, high-speed computers and, above all, the ability to integrate complex information systems.
He points to a wiki already created in June by a German pirate party member to assemble ideas for that space-based piracy plan.
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"Extraction of propellants, bulk shielding and life support fluids from this first captured asteroid could jump-start an entire space-based industry, " the Keck team writes.
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For example, funds were summarily redirected from vital work on space-based systems to less capable ground-based ones, and constraints were imposed that hamstrung realistic testing activities.
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