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Biden Admin Says U.S. Won’t Test Anti-Satellite Weapons, and Neither Should Anyone Else
While speaking at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the United States will no longer conduct anti-satellite missile tests, which are known to produce dangerous quantities of space debris.
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North Korea Fired A Ballistic Missile Over Japan
A missile launched from near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang landed in the sea 1,180 km off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido this morning. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has confirmed there was no attempt made to shoot the missile down, and Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is calling the event an…
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North Korea Just Had Its Most Successful Missile Launch Yet
US President Donald Trump has rotated between saying that a “major, major” conflict with North Korea is possible and that he “would be honored” to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. On Sunday, North Korea did what it usually does when it’s unsure of what’s going on and tested another missile. The launch went pretty…
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Formidable Photo Of A Missile Launch From A Russian Jet Fighter’s Wing
Briefly: Very cool high-resolution shot of a missile launch from the wing of a Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker. According to Cenciotti at The Aviationist, it’s an R-73, a “heat-seeking, short-range missile with a sensitive, cryogenic cooled seeker that can ‘see’ targets up to 40 degrees off the missile’s centreline.”