SpaceX successfully launch the Zuma payload on its Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 8 but now there are rumors that the payload failed to reach orbit and fell back to Earth together with the upper stage of the Falcon.
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SpaceX will attempt to launch Zuma payload on Jan. 5
SpaceX will be making an bid to send the top-secret Zuma payload into low Earth orbit on Jan. 5. The previous attempt to do that last November was canceled by the space launch company.
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Russia said to have tested RS-28 Sarmat ICBM for the first time
Russian news outlet Mk.ru reported that the RS-28 Sarmat liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped, intercontinental ballistic missile has been tested for the first time.
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Graphic: Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
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U.N. says Yemen missiles fired at Saudi have “common origin”
A group of United Nations experts have examined the wreckage of missiles fired at Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi forces.
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Apparently, Patriot system failed to intercept Scud fired at Riyadh’s airport
A group of experts have concluded that the American Patriot air defense missile system failed to intercept a Burqan-2, a variant of the Scud missile, fired at Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid international airport in Riyadh on Nov. 4.
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