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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans to send an unmanned aircraft into the stratosphere sometime in 2020-2021 and attempt to shot down a ballistic missile in its boost-phase using an electrical laser. Lockheed Martin says a unmanned version of the U-2 might be a suitable platform for that.
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By U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Rose Reynolds [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The new SM-3 Block 2A interceptor, jointly develop by the United States and Japan, will face its first intercept test this October.
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By Lt. Chris Bishop Deputy Director, U.S. Navy photo (RELEASED) (http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=45496) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The U.S. Air Force’s plan to replace the LGM-30G intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a new missile has run into issues at the Pentagon as the Department of Defense thinks the flying branch had underestimated the cost of developing the new weapon by billions of dollars.
By A1C Yvonne Morales [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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China has successfully orbit its Gaofen-3 radar imaging satellite using a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Aug. 10.
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A maneuver to place a spare satellite for the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System into a circular orbit went wrong on Jun. 29 and it left the MUOS-5 satellite in an “intermediate” orbit.
By US Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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