Wednesday, August 16, 2006
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) - The Air Force's new top leader for space predicted on Tuesday future attacks on U.S. satellites and called for really expanded tracking and identification of payloads launched by other countries.
Currently, U.S. efforts are focused on formative if an overseas launch is a ballistic missile or designed to put a thing in orbit, then cataloging it over a period that could take weeks, said Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, who heads the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
"I say those days are over," he told an annual conference here on the fledgling, multibillion-dollar U.S. anti-missile shield. "If it's a space launch, we can't afford to relax."
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