$29M To Start US Satellite Protection Program

coondoggie sends in a Network World piece that begins "The Air Force laid out $29 million in contracts this week to build space-based sensors that could detect threats or hazards and protect satellites in orbit. Assurance Technologies and Lockheed Martin Space Systems will split $20 million of the two-year contract that the Air Force says should ultimately demonstrate a viable sensing capability, as well as integration with other space systems to offer threat and hazard detection, assessment and notification ... The Air Force is looking to protect satellites from ground based lasers or anti-satellite missiles mostly."

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Will be cancelled.

[Anonymous Coward]

There are no benefits for the unskilled unemployed voter. The dhimmo-crat controlled US government will cancel it as soon as possible.

Re:More Star Wars?

[rtb61]

It is just an excuse to weaponise satellites, you know, it is only defensive and they 'need' to destroy other satellites before they can destroy our satellites. So they have been fucking around with recreating cold war military industrial spending as the B$ war in terrorism is petering out regardless of their best efforts to keep it going.

So they are determined to shift it into space where real money can spent without any benefit to anybody except the profit margins of arms manufacturers, those who live to create new and more profitable ways of killing the rest of us off.

They seem to be slowly but surely pushing the new threat out into space, hmm, the new military industrial profit centre, alien invasion. Perhaps they are slowly starting to shift their thinking for debunking aliens to promoting the xenophobic threat of alien contamination as they are running out of suitable threats upon our own grubby little polluted planet.