By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 17 November 2021 You can imagine a reusable system that can fly around and drop payloads and come back, or a hypersonic system that can carry other hypersonic systems," said Gillian Bussey, head of DoD's Joint Hypersonics Transition Office. WASHINGTON: Reusable super-high-speed aircraft
By Paul Mason, Published by The New Statesman, 17 November 2021 The major powers are engaged in an unprecedented expansion of military power in space, but it remains dangerously covert, opaque and unregulated. On 15 November astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered to “take refuge” in the spacecraft
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 17 November 2021 CEO Dan Hart: 'We've had quite a extensive dialogue at all levels of the executive branch and with the Space Force, and the intelligence community' WASHINGTON — Virgin Orbit projects that more than 40% of the company’s business by 2026 will
By Emma Thorpe, Published by Orbital Today, 17 November 2021 The Scottish Government gave the go-ahead to the Sutherland Spaceport. The authority did this despite concerns that the new launch site could interfere with the precious peat bogs. The bogs are unique and contain excess amounts of carbon. New Launch
By Jonny Tickle, Published by Russia Today, 16 November 2021 Debris that passed close to the International Space Station is no longer a threat to the inhabited satellite, Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday, hours after the US claimed it was caused by a Russian missile test. The statement
By Jonny Tickle, Published by Russia Today, 16 November 2021 The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that it conducted a missile test that hit and destroyed an old, inoperable satellite one day after the US State Department accused Moscow of being “irresponsible” and “reckless.” According to the ministry, the test
By Debra Werner, Published by SpaceNews, 16 November 2021 SAN FRANCISCO – LeoLabs was alerted early Nov. 15 that something was happening in low Earth orbit. Before the Silicon Valley space mapping startup heard of the Russian antisatellite test, its global network of phased array radars detected an object in
By Park Si-soo, Published by SpaceNews, 15 November 2021 SEOUL, South Korea — Japan will launch a second space defense unit at an airbase in the country’s west within the next 18 months to monitor electromagnetic wave threats to its satellites. Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi announced the plan of establishing
