Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begins with a profile of an enemy nuclear attack. In its roughly 30-minute flight from a silo in Siberia to detonation on top of a Minuteman silo in North Dakota--or above the White House--a Soviet warhead would go through four well-marked stages: 1) Boost. The rocket engines of, say, an SS-18 missile push it up through the atmosphere and into space. 2) Post-boost. On reaching the edge of space five minutes or so after launch, a device known as a bus detaches itself and maneuvers for another five minutes or so, releasing...
Meanwhile, in the southern Portuguese town of Beja, guerrillas of a group known as FP-25 bombed 18 Mercedes-Benz cars belonging mostly to West German military personnel at a German air force training base. No one was seriously injured. Earlier in the week, FP-25 terrorists fired rocket-propelled grenades at six NATO ships in Lisbon harbor. The barrage fell short of the targets...
...prompting the Pentagon to start an investigation of the alleged security breach. The shuttle's main cargo was a military intelligence satellite called a SIGINT (for "signals intelligence"), which is able to intercept electronic messages. The 6,000- lb. bird was to be spring-ejected from the shuttle, then rocket-propelled into a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the equator. The satellite will allow the U.S. to eavesdrop on traffic between Moscow and Soviet missile command centers. Using radar and infrared, the SIGINT will also be able to "see" Soviet launches. Said a U.S. military official: "Our country needs...
...decision pleased the crowd, but it enraged one man who had placed $11 on Commodore. Loudly he threatened to blow up the track if he did not get his winnings. Policemen threw him out, and peace seemed to be restored. Moments later a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an unidentified gunner hit the track, sending spectators and Thoroughbreds scurrying in every direction. No one was injured, but the track was shut down again until further notice...
Collectively called the active magnetospheric particle tracer explorers (AMPTE), three satellites, each designed by one of the participating nations, were launched on a single Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral in August. Since then the probes have been working together, although in different orbits, on a series of seven experiments. Space scientists must normally restrict their research to the passive observation of the heavens. AMPTE was designed to turn space into an active laboratory. "Rather than wait for chance events to happen, we decided to go out there and simulate natural conditions," says Mario Acuña, an astrophysicist with NASA...