brilliant pebble造句

• Brilliant Pebbles has faced intense opposition by critics who have said it would be the first step in militarizing space.
• Energia also worked on a small missile interceptor similar to the U . S . Brilliant Pebbles concept, he said.
• During the administration of Bush's father, the Pentagon briefly pursued a version of space-based missile defense that it called Brilliant Pebbles.
• The name Brilliant Pebbles comes from the small size of the satellite interceptors and great computational power enabling more autonomous targeting.
• Though regarded as one of the most capable SDI systems, the Brilliant Pebbles program was canceled in 1994 by the BMDO.
• During the administration of President Bush's father, the Pentagon briefly pursued a version of space-based missile defense that it called Brilliant Pebbles.
• General Graham envisioned the DC-X as the perfect inexpensive launch and delivery vehicle for his proposed Brilliant Pebbles space-based ballistic missile defense shield.
• The military Strategic Defense Initiative ( " Star Wars " ) program " Brilliant Pebbles " required low cost, rapid turnaround space launch.
• The old Brilliant Pebbles project although it did not apply to the boost phase estimated the number at 4, 000 smaller orbital launchers.
• Intended to protect against a smaller number of incoming missiles, the program was to include space-based sensors and interceptors, also based in space, called Brilliant Pebbles.
• For example, the sensors and cameras that were developed and manufactured for Brilliant Pebbles systems became components of the Clementine mission and SDI technologies may also have a role in future missile defense efforts.
• Called Brilliant Pebbles, it was hailed as being so cheap and small that up to 100, 000 of them could be shot into orbit, always ready to ruin rising enemy missiles by force of impact.
• Prominent among the scientists attending are Edward Teller and Lowell Wood, whose proposals for space-based weapons such as " brilliant pebbles " and nuclear-pumped X-ray lasers a decade ago were later dismissed by defense physicists.
• A defense official announced Tuesday that the Pentagon planned to renew research on a highly contentious element of the Strategic Defense Initiative called Brilliant Pebbles, a plan to base thousands of missile interceptors in space.
• Although no Starbird missiles were ever launched from Wake Island, the Starbird launch facilities at Wake were modified to support rocket launches for the " Brilliant Pebbles " program with the first launch occurring on January 29, 1992.
• The initial stage would consist of the Brilliant Pebbles . defense system, a satellite constellation of 4, 600 kinetic interceptors ( KE ASAT ), of 100 lb ( 45 kg ) each, in Low Earth orbit, and their associated tracking systems.
• "Mampy Moose / Brilliant Pebbles / Philip Brunels " is a live set featuring Gareth Turner on diatonic fiddle; the first two parts of the piece were written and recorded by English reggae / E2, whilst " Philip Brunels " comes from Quebec.
• After being impacted by mission scheduling delays caused by the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the program was cancelled in late September 1990 to protect funding for another U . S . Army space-based missile defense program known as " Brilliant Pebbles ".
• The new budget would also revive study of a Reagan-era plan called Brilliant Pebbles, which would have involved as many as 4, 000 small interceptors stationed in orbit around Earth with the hope that they could rapidly maneuver and smash into enemy ballistic missiles _ a so-called hit-to-kill defense system.