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   BROWSE BY AUTHOR : CARLA ANNE ROBBINS
Troubled System Shows Hurdles Missile-Defense Plans Will Face -- Carla Anne Robbins  -- Wall Street Journal  -- June 15, 2001

All U.S. missile defense plans will rely on a constellation of low-orbiting satellites known as SBIRS Low that are supposed to resolve what is probably the toughest challenge of missile defense: finding and tracking with pinpoint accuracy complex warheads traveling at 15,000 miles an hour and surrounded by dozens of decoys. However, there is substantial debate over whether defense contractors can come up with the crucial satellite technology -- especially on the timetable that Congress and the Pentagon are demanding.

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