Northrop Grumman clears key design hurdle for military satellites in record time

By Chris Young, Published by Interesting Engineering, 19 April 2023 "Our T1TL solution builds on our decades of end-to-end mission expertise." Northrop Grumman completed a critical design review of a Space Development Agency (SDA) communications satellite in only 13 months. As SpaceNews points out, that is a fraction of the

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US ‘Swarm Of Satellites’ Can Exhaust Russian, Chinese ASAT Missiles; Help To Track Hypersonic Weapons

By Parth Satam, Published by the Eurasian Times, 8 April 2023 The US aims to overwhelm Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weapons with the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) 500 communications, data transfer, and missile tracking satellites. The first batch of 10 satellites was launched on April 2. SDA director Derek M.

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Space Force asks industry input for second phase of MEO missile warning/tracking

By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking defense, 3 April 2023 The Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking - MEO constellation will be incrementally developed in two- to three-year cycles by Space Systems Command. WASHINGTON — With a prospective budget boost in fiscal 2024 as a tailwind, the Space Force is speeding towards

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U.S. military begins launching satellites to counter hypersonic missile threat

By Stephen Clark, Published by Spaceflight Now, 2 April 2023 The first 10 spacecraft for a planned U.S. military mega-constellation launched from California Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting in place the keystone for a multibillion-dollar network of hundreds of small satellites to improve defenses against hypersonic missiles

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Russia Plans To ‘Circumvent’ US Ballistic Missile Defense Systems In Europe By ‘Activating’ Underwater Nukes

By Tanmay Kadam, Published by The EurAsian Times, 30 March 2023 Russia’s new naval base to accommodate its Belgorod and Khabarovsk special-purpose nuclear-powered submarines armed with Poseidon nuclear torpedoes, also called the ‘tsunami bomb,’ could be completed early next year. “The construction of coastal infrastructure facilities for accommodating two special-purpose

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