By Amanda Miller, Published by Air Force Magazine, 16 April 2021 The Defense Department’s Space Development Agency wants to blanket Earth with a constellation of low-cost, open-architecture data-relay and missile-tracking satellites whose sheer numbers, along with their 1,000-kilometer-high orbits, would theoretically thwart some modes of interference—but not all. With all
By Morgan Artyukhina, Published by SpaceWar, 16 April 2021 Moscow (Sputnik) - Russia and China both have multiple hypersonic weapon systems in use or advanced development, while the US has none. The seemingly unstoppable weapons travel faster than Mach 5, or roughly 3,800 miles per hour. A senior Pentagon official
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 13 April 2021 Slingshot teamed with Zoic Labs to develop a graphics tool to help operators view and interact with complex data. WASHINGTON — Slingshot Aerospace announced April 13 it won a $1.2 million Space Force contract for the development of software to help
Published by Yonhap News Agency, 30 March 2021 SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. military has completed a two-week combined training of its missile defense units in the Indo-Pacific region, including an air defense brigade stationed in South Korea, to maintain readiness and ensure the ability to jointly respond
By Kosuke Takahashi, Published in Janes, 29 March 2021 The Japan Ministry of Defense’s (MoD’s) National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) has urged Tokyo to increasingly focus on the development of advanced military technologies such as high-power microwave- and laser-based weapon systems to help counter the growing missile threat posed
By Staff Writers, Published by SpaceWar, 26 March 2021 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) - The U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center successfully delivered the fifth Space Based Infrared System satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) to the processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The satellite traveled across the
by Ed Adamczyk, Published by Space War, 24 March, 2021 Washington DC (UPI) - Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman will build competing versions of the Next Generation missile defense interceptor, the Missile Defense Agency announced. A Defense Department statement on Tuesday said contract awards were structured to carry "two designs
By Staff Writers, Published by Space War, 24 March 2021 Huntsville AL (SPX) - The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in a competitive downselect phase, selected Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and partner Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) to deliver the nation's most advanced missile defense system, the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI). The
