Sun, Dec 01, 2002 - Page 10 News List

Makers work on `flash-to-bang time'

ARMS INDUSTRY Following the Sept. 11 attacks on the US, American's have become more willing to pour big bucks into some fast-paced development projects

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND

Unlike previous satellite communications systems, this one would use a new kind of link entirely: one based on laser communications. As a mark of its importance to the technology revolution the Pentagon is seeking, it is being called by a new name: the transformational satellite.

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