INPROX is developingthesensors under supervision of the NationalAeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA) under termsof a SpaceActAgreement (SAA) with NASA GlennResearchCenter.
But Americans were hopeful. If the plan succeeded, it would be the greatest space act since manned flights began.
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Both Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, and Jacques Chirac, France's president, telephoned Mr Sharon on December 18th to ask him to give Mr Arafat the space to act.
"There's a belief that they have that the criminal groups do sort of take advantage of the media and the attention in order to create fear, basically, and therefore space to act with impunity, " Wilson said.