众议院和参议院之间关于是否发展新一代小型侦察卫星的辩论已使去年的情报审核议案搁置了数月。目前,美国空军的一个顾问委员会已经作了调查,他们说,目前令人骄傲而又开支巨大的美国情报和军事卫星体系应该最终由许多小型卫星组成的分散部署的系统所取代。空军科学顾问委员会的报告没有直接述及目前关于小型卫星 The debate between the House of Representatives and the Senate on whether or not to develop a new generation of small reconnaissance satellites has left the last year’s intelligence review bill shelved for months. At present, an advisory committee of the U.S. Air Force has investigated and said that the current proud and costly U.S. intelligence and military satellite system should eventually be replaced by a decentralized system of many small satellites. The report of the Air Science Scientific Advisory Board did not directly address the current issue of small satellites