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U.S. Plans: Defense Department Suspends Space-Based Kinetic Interceptor The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has suspended plans to develop a space-based kinetic weapon to intercept ballistic missiles in their boost phases, Defense Daily reported today (see GSN, July 15). The agency is still developing plans for a ground-based version of the program, but officials decided the technology for a space-based weapon was not mature enough to move forward. The Pentagon has cancelled planned industry days on the space-based program. “With the funding constraints and anticipated cuts to the boost-phase accounts in the FY ’04 defense bill, the space-based boost just does not fit,” an industry official said (see GSN, July 3). The program, however, has not been shelved completely, Defense Daily reported (Kerry Gildea, Defense Daily, Aug. 1).
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