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Rambler News Service reported on Jan. 3 that Russia will send at least one new-generation missile defense early warning satellite to detect missile launches this year.
By NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Chinese President Xi Jinping launched three new military units during a ceremony at the PLA headquarters in Beijing on Dec. 31. One of the units, the PLA Rocket Force, will replace the Second Artillery Corps.
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For four years, starting from 2009, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency spent $231 million trying to develop a new-class of space satellites that would detect missile launches and track warheads in flight with great precision.
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Source : MDA
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French newspaper La Tribune reported on Dec. 23 that Paris and Cairo had failed to reach an agreement over the sale of two military satellites.
Rama [CeCILL or CC BY-SA 2.0 fr], via Wikimedia Commons
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U.S. spy satellites noticed that China had carried out a canister ejection test of a DF-41 ICBM from a rail car mobile launcher on Dec. 5.
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By George Shuklin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons
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