Reply #6: link below to Sept 2004 report -is this the report you/Randi are refering? [View All]

[papau]

SPACE-BASED SENSORS TAKE CENTER STAGE
A new Pentagon study has emphasized the importance of space-based sensors to U.S. missile defense plans, the September 10th edition of Inside the Air Force reports. According to the brief, prepared by a task force assembled by the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board (DSB) at the request of Congress, “the Space-Based Radar has the potential for substantial contributions to ballistic missile defense, providing capabilities and access that are difficult to achieve with surface-based sensors.” In its findings, the DSB white paper concluded that space-based surveillance and tracking could play a critical role in several distinct duties: pre-launch monitoring; the early detection of ballistic missile launches; tracking of the missile’s trajectory, and; discrimination between warheads and decoys that might be deployed by the incoming missile.

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2004-09-Strategic_Communication.pdf

Sept., 2004