国防部官员仍在研究来自苏联西部地区的强辐射源使美国预警卫星和数据中继卫星暂时失效的问题。光源位置尚未精确测定,但国防部的一些高级官员并未低估在这几次卫星失效中苏联使用激光的可能性。国防部的情报官员推断说,苏联天然气管道破裂失火,可能产生足够的能量,使卫星 Department of Defense officials are still studying the issue of the strong radiation sources from the western Soviet Union temporarily deactivating the US early-warning satellites and data relay satellites. The location of the light source has not been precisely determined, but some top Defense Department officials do not underestimate the possibility of the Soviet Union using lasers for these satellite failures. Department of Defense intelligence officials concluded that the rupture of Soviet natural gas pipelines could generate enough energy to make satellites