Virgin Orbit to Launch First Satellite for Dutch Ministry of Defense

Published by Virigin Orbit, 25 January 2021 RNLAF Mission to Explore Advantages of Responsive Launch in Deploying First Small Satellite on LauncherOne Long Beach, California — January 25, 2021 — Virgin Orbit, the California-based satellite launch company, announced today that it has been selected by the Dutch space engineering company Innovative

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Missile Defense Agency picks 2 vendors for hypersonic weapon tracking sensor prototypes

Concept art from Northrop Grumman shows a potential architecture for defending against hypersonic missiles. (Northrop Grumman) By Nathan Strout, Published by C4ISRNET, 25 January 2021 WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency selected two companies to build prototype sensors capable of tracking hypersonic weapons from space. L3Harris and Northrop Grumman will

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An artist's impression of space debris and defunct launcher stages in the geostationary ring. Aging satellites are known to release debris and explosions can occur due to residual energy sources. (Photo credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL)

The race to clean up outer space

An artist's impression of space debris and defunct launcher stages in the geostationary ring. Aging satellites are known to release debris and explosions can occur due to residual energy sources. (Photo credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL) By Nitin Sreedhar, Published in Mint Lounge - 16 January 2021 Earth's orbit has become so crowded

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THAAD missile launch

Missile Defense Costs To Soar $5B A Year: CBO

THAAD missile launch (Breaking Defense) By Theresa Hitchens, Published in Breaking Defense - 15 January, 2021 CBO estimates that developing F-35-launched boost-phase interceptors to defend against North Korean ballistic missiles would cost $25 billion to $40 billion to develop, with an additional $10 billion to $20 billion a year to

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OneWeb slashes size of future satellite constellation

Regulators worry that the ITU’s current bring-into-use rules make it too easy for companies to warehouse spectrum, potentially tying up valuable non-geostationary satellite orbit frequencies for years without introducing new satellite services. Credit: OneWeb artist's concept by Jeff FoustPublished in Space News - 14 January, 2021 WASHINGTON — OneWeb says

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