During a Missile Defense Agency test, USS Lake Erie successfully employed a SM-3 Block IB to engage a
sophisticated, separating short-range ballistic missile target.
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Category: Space
Rocket was China’s highest suborbital launch since 1976
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the launch of a rocket from China on May 13 was China’s highest suborbital launch since 1976.
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China disguised new ASAT missile test as sounding rocket experiment
China carried out a test of its new Dong Ning-2 ASAT missile on May 13 but disguised it as a sounding rocket experiment by the Chinese Academy Of Sciences.
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Chinese internet
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Prototype eMRBM successfully tested
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have successfully tested a prototype air-launched Extended Medium-range Ballistic Missile (eMRBM) target at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.
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USAF removed 17 launch officers from duty
Seventeen U.S. Air Force launch officers are no longer allowed to launch nuclear missiles after their unit scored a “marginal” grade during assessment.
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