Air & Space Magazine has an interesting piece on the world’s first anti-satellite test, as told by the pilot himself retired Maj. Gen. Wilbert “Doug” Pearson.
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Category: Space
Russia suspends development of RS-26 Rubezh
TASS is reporting that Russia has decided to suspend the development of the contravesial RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile due to a lack of funds.
By Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/446) [CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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UR-100N (NATO: SS-19) ICBMs could be the first to be armed with Avangard
TASS reported on Mar. 21 that the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle can first be equipped on the UR-100N silo-launched liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile.
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China developing spaceplane, similar to X-37B
China is working on developing its own version of the X-37B spaceplane but the Chinese version will take off from a conventional runway.
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Pentagon has classified missile defense flight test schedules
The public will no longer know about future flight tests of U.S. ballistic missile defense systems and components after the Pentagon decided to classify the information starting from this year.
Photo: MDA
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