By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 30 June 2021 WASHINGTON — Virgin Orbit successfully delivered four U.S. military satellites to low Earth orbit on June 30 as part of the company’s second successful launch of the LauncherOne rocket. While most space launches start with the rocket standing vertically on a
By Lee Roop, Published by Stars and Stripes, 30 June 2021 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Tribune News Service) — Scientific research under way in Huntsville to improve space weather predictions will help the U.S. Space Command manage future natural threats to vital satellite communications and also shows the technical expertise available in
By Abraham Mahshie, Published by Air Force Magazine, 29 June 2021 Sanctions are crushing Russia’s efforts to counter American space superiority, but analysts have a rising concern that Russian President Vladimir Putin may link up with China’s wealth to develop the weapons that could stop American war fighters in their
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 29 June 2021 WASHINGTON: Space is becoming ever-more important for detecting and tracking “evolved” threats from both ballistic and hypersonic cruise missiles, Vice Adm. Jon Hill, Missile Defense Agency director, said today. “One of the great values of space” is to “sensor architectures,”
By Michael Byers, Published by PeaceQuest, 28 June 2021 There have been a lot of questions surrounding Canada’s proposed new warships, also know as Canadian Surface Combatants. Writing in The Globe and Mail this week, Michael Byers points out that some of the weapons technology being considered for our fleet
By Koohan Paik-Mander, Published by Bruce Gagnon's Organizing Notes, 26 June, 2021 The Pentagon is upgrading its full-spectrum dominance, with China as the primary target. In early June 2021, in a classified directive to Pentagon officials, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin slammed the former Trump administration for talking big but
By Jospeh Trevithick, Published by Warzone, 24 June 2021 The head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency has suggested that portions of a future Aegis Ashore site on the strategic American island of Guam in the Pacific could go into bunkers underground or onto mobile platforms. Ostensibly, this is due
By Dani Garavelli, Published by The Sctosman, 20 June 2021 Sutherland “space crofters” Dorothy Pritchard and Wilma Robertson are standing on the Mhoine - a peat bog stretching from Loch Eriboll to the Kyle of Tongue - and talking about rockets. Situated on the western periphery of the Flow Country,
