Northrop Grumman, together with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, has unveiled its preliminary design for DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane XS-1.
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Photo: Northrop Grumman Corp.
Category: Space
UGVs to guard Russian ICBM sites by 2020
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Dmitry Andreyev told journalists that unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) will guard intercontinental ballistic missile launch sites by 2020.
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USAF General urged Pentagon to change way of buying satellites
Lt. Gen. John Hyten, vice commander of the U.S. Air Force Space Command, says the Pentagon should stop paying for non-recurring engineering costs to design, develop and test new satellites before buying them.
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Chinese agency also revealed existence of DF-26, HQ-19, HQ-26
The Shaanxi Province Environmental Monitoring Center was found to have revealed the existence of the DF-26 MRBM in a progress report in March this year.
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JSDF to setup space unit
Japan’s military plans to set up a space unit within five years to protect satellites from space debris.
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