Word: intercepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the space agency announced the award of $1.15 million contracts to Boeing and Lockheed for preliminary studies of a new rocket. Its purpose: to power an unmanned spacecraft that will intercept Halley's Comet as it sweeps around the sun. Known as the solar electric propulsion system, the engine could become the workhorse of deep space, carrying probes on far-flung missions across the solar system...
...course we're concerned. I was banned twice, I'll probably be banned again. They could banish me to the Kalahari desert. Of course we are afraid. My son was forced to leave the country, the BOSS intercept our correspondence with him. We are against a fortress...
Syria said it sent fighters to intercept the Israeli warplanes after the Israelis attacked civilian camps--presumably Palestinian--in the Damour area ten miles south of Beirut...
...been conducting preemptive strikes into Lebanon. In Washington's view, the new policy risks a direct Israeli confrontation with the Syrians, whose more than 22,000 troops constitute the principal peace-keeping force in Lebanon. After the air battle, Syria reportedly issued orders for its MiGs to intercept all Israeli flights over Lebanon. In turn, Premier Begin told the Jewish Assembly: "Damascus should know that they can't interfere with our artillery and air force." If Israeli planes are shot down in Lebanon, he warned, Syria will pay the consequences...
...relatively minor problems?and one very big problem: Soviet encryption of missile telemetry. Telemetry is the remote electronic means by which a rocket or a warhead sends back to earth data about its performance during a test flight. One way the U.S. monitors Soviet compliance with SALT is to intercept and analyze Soviet telemetry. Last July the Russians transmitted in code ?encrypted?the telemetry from an SS-18 test, including the telemetry about the performance of the warhead?data that are helpful to the U.S. in determining throw weight or payload. The incident assumed political importance, for it went...