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...night in June 1984, a test ICBM soared up from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Thousands of miles away in the middle of the Pacific, another rocket was launched on Kwajalein Island. It contained an infrared sensor powerful enough to detect heat from a human body 1,000 miles away. Closing at 15,000 m.p.h., the rocket locked onto the ICBM, intercepting it in midflight and destroying it by sheer physical impact. So devastating was the hit that the remaining shards of the ICBM's warhead measured less than an inch across...
Sources apparently within the SDI program told the Times that the 1984 launchings did not prove the efficacy of the heat-seeking infrared sensor. Rather, the target ICBM carried a beacon that guided the interceptor rocket toward a set-up collision. Officials involved with the test have vigorously defended the test results. Said General Eugene Fox, the retired Army missile- defense chief: "We didn't gimmick anything." William Inglis, the experiment's civilian test director, dismissed the accusations of an SDI hoax as "technical nonsense." There was indeed a beacon, but, said Inglis, it served only for "range safety" purposes...
...first appointment at a sensor level in the modern period for that area," Womack said...
...recorder observed yesterday was one ofthree AG-6720 Time Lapse Video Camera Recordersowned by the police department. The AG-6720 hasmultiple sensor recording modes and a recordingcapability of more than 480 hours
...physical symptoms and restricted diet aren't enough, many diabetics must also give themselves blood tests every day, pricking their fingers repeatedly to see how much sugar is in their blood. But a new sensor from Sandia National Labs -- yes, the nuclear-weapons people -- makes the chore painless. A powerful infra-red light shines through the fingertip; careful analysis of the light as it emerges reveals the exact composition of the blood coursing through that finger, including the precise percentage of sugar. Sandia is seeking a corporate partner to market the device...