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Star Wars? Air Force Preps Missile-Spotting Satellite

Star Wars? Air Force Preps Missile-Spotting Satellite

Star Wars is back! Sort of. The Air Force will launch a key satellite for its space-based missile alert system Friday, hoping to overcome years of developmental delays in the dogged pursuit of an eye-in-the-sky threat-warning system.

 

Gates Warns of N. Korea Missile Threat to U.S.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the country was within five years of developing a missile with the potential of hitting Alaska or the West Coast.

 

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