Wednesday September 28, 2011
Defrosted:
Cold War Era Missile Launches Satellite
A Peacekeeper missile from the Cold War era has been repurposed as a launch vehicle for a military satellite.
The TacSat-4 satellite will be used to provide US armed forces with better communications links in the battlefield.
From Fox News:
In Afghanistan and other spots, mountainous terrain makes communications with hillside base stations challenging. In recent years, one special ops solider was killed trying to radio for support, his handheld unable to communicate with an nearby antenna.
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