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21 M. Hurley, “Tactical Microsatellite Experiment (TacSat 1),” Navy Research Laboratory, 2004,
online: www.nrl.navy.mil/content.php?P=04REVIEW207.
22 NASA, “TacSat-3 Information,” 19 May 2009, online: www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/missions/
tacsat3.html.
23 Air Force Space Command, “Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle,” online: www.afspc.af.mil/
library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3643; Anthony Young, “Heavy Lifting for the New Millennium,”
e Space Review, 26 April 2004.
24 NATO, Weapons in Space and Global Security, Report of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Sub-
Committee on the Proliferation of Military Technology, 156 STCMT 03 E, 2003 at 5.
25 RIA Novosti, “Russia to orbit 7 new GLONASS satellites in 2010,” 6 April 2010, online:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100406/158456450.html.
26 Interfax, “No More Reductions of Russian Satellite Fleet Planned,” 14 July 2004.
27 RIA Novosti, “Russia’s Space Defenses Stage a Revival,” 4 October 2006, online:
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20061004/54509604-print.html.
28 Federation of American Scientists, “Russia and Communications Satellite Systems,” c. 1997,
online: www.fas.org/spp/guide/russia/comm/index.html.
29 Information from Pavel Podvig, “Russia and the Military Use of Space,” in Pavel Podvig and Hui
Zhang, Russian and Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space (Cambridge, Mass.: American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008).
30 Stephen Clark, “Russia launches relay craft, commemorative satellites,” Spaceight Now, 23 May
2008, online: www.spaceightnow.com/news/n0805/23rockot.
31 Chris Bergin, “Russian Rockot launches with Gonets-M and two Kosmos satellites,” NASA
Spaceight, 7 September 2010, online: www.nasaspaceight.com/2010/09/russian-rockot-launchvehicle-gonets-m-satellite-to-orbit.
32 BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union, “Russian Space Conference Looks at Problems and
Challenges,” redOrbit.com, 25 November 2005, online: www.redorbit.com/news/space/302983/
russian_space_conference_looks_at_problems_challenges/index.html.
33 Union of Concerned Scientists, “UCS Satellite Database,” 2011, online: www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_
weapons_and_global_security/space_weapons/technical_issues/ucs-satellite-database.html.
34 Pavel Podvig, “History and the Current Status of the Russian Early Warning System,” 10 Science
and Global Security, 2002 at 21-60; Pavel Podvig, “Early Warning,” Russian Strategic Nuclear
Forces, 9 February 2009, online: http://russianforces.org/sprn.
35 Pavel Podvig, “Reducing the risk of an accidental launch,” 14 Science and Global Security, 2006
at 35.
36 Georey Forden, Pavel Podvig and eodor A. Postol, “False alarm, nuclear danger,” IEEE
Spectrum, March 2000, online: www.armscontrol.ru/Start/publications/spectrum-ews.htm.
37 Fernand Verger, Isabelle Sourbès-Verger and Raymond Ghirardi, e Cambridge Encyclopedia
of Space at 341.
38 e Lavochkin Science and Production Association agreed to build the Arkon-2 multirole radar
satellite for the Federal Space Agency. It is designed to take high-resolution and medium-resolution
photos for federal clients, and to use the information for national defense programs. Yuri Zatitsev,
“Russia Developing New Space Radars,” RIA Novosti, 3 March 2005.
39 Pavel Podvig, “Russia and the Military Use of Space,” in Pavel Podvig and Hui Zhang, Russian and
Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space (Cambridge, Mass.: American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 2008).
40 Fernand Verger, Isabelle Sourbès-Verger and Raymond Ghirardi, e Cambridge Encyclopedia
of Space at 319-323.
41 Pavel Felgenhauer, “Did GLONASS Failure Sink Ivanov’s Chance at the Presidency?” Eurasia Daily
Monitor, 6 February 2008, online: www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id+2372780.
42 Tariq Malik, “Delta 4 Heavy Rocket Launches Huge U.S. Spy Satellite,” Space News, 29 November
2010 at 14.