Aviation News
Two optical spy satellites from the cancelled Future Imagery Architecture program may get a chance to go into space under NASA’s WFIRST-AFTA (the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets) program.
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Credit: NASA
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The U.S. Air Force has finally revealed one of the tests it will carry out on board the X-37B.
By USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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According to the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, the next X-37B flight will test an experimental propulsion system jointly developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Space and Missile Systems Center.
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Russia’s Altay Optical Laser Center, a satellite tracking facility in Siberia, has released photographs of the Lacrosse 5 radar imaging reconnaissance satellite.
Photo: Altay Optical Laser Center
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U.S. combatant commanders around the world have been requesting for more BMD-capable cruisers and destroyers in the past few years. However, the U.S. Navy will soon be unable to meet those requests.
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