The Chinese government announced it had carried out a land-based missile interception test and the objectives of the test were achieved.
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Category: Space
DARPA selects three teams for XS-1 spaceplane program
Three teams have been awarded contracts under Phase 1 of DARPA’s XS-1 spaceplane program. Boeing, working with Blue Origin; Masten Space Systems working with XCOR Aerospace; and Northrop Grumman with Virgin Galactic will now develop concepts for a vehicle that can fly 10 times in 10 days and exceeding Mach 10 in flight.
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Raytheon cleared to resume productoin of EKV
Raytheon has been allowed to resume production of its Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) for the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system following a successful intercept last month.
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Russia lost last remaining US-KMO missile warning satellite
A Russian early warning missile detection satellite has been lost permanantly. The Kosmos 2479 satellite was the last of the US-KMO series that operate in geosynchronous orbit.
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First successful GMD intercept using an enhanced version EKV
The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system successfully intercepted an intermediate-range ballistic missile target using an enhanced version of the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) on Jun. 22.
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