Bart Hendrickx at The Space Review has published a comprehensive review of Russia’s Peresvet mobile laser system.
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South Korea’s first military communications satellite has arrived at Cape Canaveral for launch aboard Falcon 9 next month
An An-124 cargo plane has delivered a Anasis 2 communications satellite on Jun. 8 to Cape Canaveral. The military communications satellite will be launch into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket next month.
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Japan plans to field missile tracking satellite constellation
Tokyo has draft a plan to field a missile tracking satellite constellation, Jiji press reports. The plan is expected to be approved this month.
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Parts of Long March 5B landed in Ivory Coast
The core of China’s Long March 5B rocket came back to Earth on May 11 but instead of landing in the Atlantic Ocean, parts of the rocket could have ended up in Mahounou, Ivory Coast.
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NROL-44 mission delayed to Aug. 26
The U.S. Space Force has delayed the NROL-44 mission from June to Aug. 26. The reason for the postponement was not given.
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