Image: Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, US Air Force/Department of Defense From Haiwai'i Public Radio, 17 November 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) — In a first for the Pentagon's push to develop defenses against intercontinental-range ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States, a missile interceptor launched from a U.S. Navy ship at sea hit
A rocket’s-eye view shows a stack of SpaceX Starlink satellites just before orbital deployment. (SpaceX Photo) By Morgan Artyukhina, Sputnik News - October 7, 2020 The US Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded two contracts on Monday to build eight satellites for its upcoming infrared missile detection constellation. However,
Image: Wikipedia By Subrata Ghoshroy, Buletin of Atomic Scientists - 24 September, 2020 The program to develop a missile defense system to protect the United States mainland has existed in one form or another for nearly six decades. Though it was controversial from the beginning and faced nearly unsurmountable technical
