Pentagon Seeks $10 Million For Space-Based Missile Interceptor

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans to pursue efforts next year to develop a space-based missile interceptor, Aerospace Daily reported today (see GSN, Jan. 22).

The agency’s fiscal 2005 budget request includes about $10 million for a space-based Kinetic Energy Interceptor test bed, Pentagon sources said. The agency plans to begin testing in space with orbital experiments in 2010 or 2011 and with a limited experimental constellation of satellites in 2012, the sources said.

The KEI program works to develop ground-, sea- and space-based missile interceptors to bring down enemy missiles in their boost phase of flight (Marc Selinger, Aerospace Daily, Feb. 23).

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