Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very-high-frequency radio antennas and small, square infra-red scanners that work in tandem with radar to direct the killer toward its orbiting prey. The anti-satellite interceptor (ASAT) has a parabolic "dish" antenna that homes in on the target satellite and gets the ASAT - actu ally a space bomb - close to the target, where it detonates. The ASAT goes off like a super hand grenade, spraying the victim satellite with metal-piercing fragments. ASAT's main target would be the top U.S. spy satellite: "Big Bird," a 10-ton reconnaissance craft that is vulnerable to attack...
...Soviets have developed a "hunter-killer" satellite, straight from Star Wars, that can track down orbiting U.S. spacecraft - and wipe them out. Said Brown: "The Soviets have an operational capability" to destroy "some" American satellites and have thus raised at least the possibility of a Soviet-U.S. space war. Added Brown: "That is somewhat troublesome...
...design an American satellite killer to defend against the Soviet version. In September the Defense Department quietly awarded the $58.7 million contract for its own ASAT program to the Vought Corp. of Dallas. The U.S. plan is to leap frog the relatively crude Soviet ASAT technology and put into space by the mid-1980s hunter-killer satellites armed with lasers that could vaporize metal in 20 billionths of a second...
...nine essays by various experts, is a landmark in Cézanne studies. There has never been a Cézanne show like this before, and there may never be one again. One is drawn back, beyond the theory, beyond the historical results, into the most radical meditations on space, shape, light and how to paint them...
...analogue to the reigning fantasy of Marxism: the dictatorship of the proletariat. Its ideal order would wipe out nostalgia for older styles and set up a "permanent revolution" of design. Alas for the designers, this did not happen. Most of the triumphs of constructivism survived in the fictional space of painting or sculpture, theater or typography. As soon as ideal form moved into the real world of design or architecture and became the functionalist esthetic, it was hobbled by the resistance of society and by the lofty monasticism of the designers themselves...