BMDO to fund advanced array for first New Millennium probe

The Pentagon's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) will spend $5 million to $6 million to develop an advanced solar array that will be tested on NASA's first New Millennium spacecraft, a 220-pound probe that will use solar-electric propulsion to visit a comet and an asteroid. BMDO has...

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