Bush Prepares for Possible GPS Shutdown

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:08:48 -0500, "Chris Gumm" wrote
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http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/...&w=APO&coview=


Well, if you can't intercept incoming missiles, you've got to do
something:


President George W. Bush's drive to deploy a multibillion-dollar
shield against ballistic missiles was set back by what critics
called a stunning failure of its first full flight test in two
years. The abortive $85 million exercise raised fresh questions
about the reliability of the first elements of the plan, an heir
to former president Ronald Reagan's vision of a space-based
missile defense that critics dubbed "Star Wars." The
interceptor missile never left its silo at Kwajalein Atoll in
the central Pacific, shutting itself down automatically because
of an "anomaly" of unknown origin, the Pentagon's Missile
Defense Agency said. About 16 minutes earlier, a target missile
had been fired from Kodiak, Alaska, in what was to have been a
fly-by test chiefly designed to gather data on new hardware,
software and engagement angles, said Richard Lehner, a
spokesman. BOEING CO., the Pentagon's prime contractor on the
project, declined comment.
(Reuters 03:50 PM ET 12/15/2004)

Mo

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This begs the question, what do you do if you're on a GPS approach
when they shut the system down?