European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Air Force Titan carried seven communications relay stations helped strengthen defense message system. Secret but it is known that several times each Day at least one american spy satellite makes photographic passes Over the soviet Union red China and other countries. Soviet observation satellites also Fly regularly Over the United Stales. Both nations place Strong emphasis on a military space program. Of 455 . Satellites sent into Earth orbit through june 1, 346 had military assignments such As reconnaissance missile Detec Tion navigation mapping missile tar gets communications and  soviet Union orbited 224 satellites in that period at least 98 for military purposes according to . Sources. A Large number of launching is Nec Essary because the photographic Satel Lites must return to Earth with their film packages and must be replaced on patrol to reduce the High launching rate the United states is testing satellite which electronically will Send Clear photographs and other data to Earth enabling the payload to operate for several months or even  report that an operational system might be two or three years away. It s difficult they say to duplicate the Clear Quality of pictures developed from film returned to Earth. These photos taken from 150 to 300miles in space reportedly show with clarity objects on Earth Down to the size of a manhole cover. Even the less Clear pictures relayed electronically by weather satellites have considerable military value. The air Force recently reported that its bombers were being guided to Cloud free targets in Vietnam by daily photo graphs received from the National aeronautics and space administration Sessa and Nimbus weather satellites. The technique offering the mos Promise is a so called null spectral sys  heart of the system is Multi band color  or four color photographs each sensitive to Light at a particular narrow band of visible or near infrared frequencies show considerable detail about land and water. Additional information comes from instruments that scan nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio Waves through radar and microwaves the entire infrared spectrum up to ultraviolet and a rays. Using this collection of instruments Nasa is developing a satellite capable of measuring temperatures and density anywhere in the atmosphere and Down to a depth of 200 feet in the  satellite will report on water re sources including the location of under ground Rivers the movement of schools of fish an inventory of forests including the health of individual Trees soil Fertility and the location of minerals. It s easy to see How the defense department could use such a satellite to spot submerged submarines to sigh enemy soldiers in deep foliage or to identify a missile silo buried under ground. The defense department also has made rapid strides in developing Satel Lites which Are proving valuable navigation beacons for ships and planes which Are mapping the Earth with extreme accuracy to provide targeting data for missiles which Are intercepting radio signals from ground air and space based facilities of potential enemies and which Are capable of detecting if any nation violates be limited nuclear test ban treaty. After years of problems Industry finally has produced a satellite sensor that can detect the launching of mis Siles abroad. The air Force recently awarded multimillion Dollar contracts to build this advanced Early warning Satel Lite. The defense department has 15 Mili tary communications satellites circling the Earth. They Are classed As test vehicles but Are being used effectively to Speed military messages including traffic to and from Vietnam. By 1970, an advanced operational network of these satellites is expected to be Fly ing. A led China s development toward nuclear rockets has forced the Johnson administration toward a decision to spend billions of dollars for an Anibal Listic missile system which it does t want  research and testing is being done in these areas As Well As on projects designed to intercept inspect and destroy hostile  consists of two separate rocket systems. The spartan with a rang of 400 Miles would intercept a warhead outside the atmosphere. Warheads that eluded the spartan would be attacked below 100,000 feet by the  these Abms destroy the targets within a nuclear explosion and merely have to detonate their charges within a mile of the  the soviet Union like the ., has Complex decoys to fool tracking radar and is producing missiles with a Neuv Erable multiple warheads. Us minuteman and Polaris missiles Are believed Able to carry three warheads each. There has been speculation that the Large soviet icbms might have a Many As 15 in a single nose Cone exploding very Large nuclear bomb sin the paths of such concentrated at tacks thus would be better than the one on one concept of Nike a. Such bombs would have the Force of 100 or More Megatons More than 10 times the Power of the Nike a  of a few of these Large rocket carried bombs at the proper Alti tude and latitude could trap dense quantities of radiation particles in the Earth s magnetic Field. The explosion would disable any mis Sile within several Miles and within 30 minutes an artificial Belt of radiation would encircle the Globe. This umbrella would be Strong enough to damage the electronic elements of nuclear War Heads rendering ineffective entire bar rages of enemy missiles. It would not require the Complex tracking radar of Nike a and it would not be hampered by decoys or Maneu Merable  nuclear testing in Nevada has proved the feasibility of Suchan awesome weapon. However some specialists say atmospheric tests would be required to perfect it. They note that the soviet Union has conducted considerable above ground testing with bombs up to 60  russians accomplished 71 such tests before signing the limited nuclear test ban treaty and Are believed to be developing such an abm  defense department also is re examining a concept called project Bambi which was abandoned in 1964 As too costly. It envisions hundreds of satellites spaced out in Low Earth orbit so that several would be Over enemy territories at All times. Satellite sensors would detect a rising rocket and the vehicle would immediately unleash Clouds of Metal projectiles to Pierce and destroy the rocket before it got out of the atmosphere. The . Also is working on a second generation ant satellite system. It Al ready has the Nike zeus rockets on contained on pays in sunday october 15, 1967 the stars and stripes Page is