After the Army, Airforce, Navy, and Coast Guard, it is the ‘Space Force’ (the new branch of the military) that President of the United States of America – Donald Trump announced on Monday. At a meeting of the National Space Council on Monday, Trump mentioned that it is not only enough to have an American […]
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Busy morning in Plesetsk – Russian military satellite launched
Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome military satellite at 09:42 GMT on 24 March 2016. It was second launch performed from Plesetsk this year. This military satellite should be considered as highly classified payload – Russian authorities kept it in secret until yesterday. Soyuz-2.1A rose over Plesetsk Cosmodrome with imaging satellite on […]
Bad luck after Amos-6 – Israeli military satellite with problems
It seems that after two weeks after disaster of Falcon-9 rocket with Israeli satellite Amos-6 on atop, another launch of Israeli spacecraft was conducted with troubles. Mission of Ofek-11 was classified due the fact that spacecraft is high resolution imaging reconnaissance satellite based on Opsat-3000. Built by Israel Aerospace Industries for ministry of Defense of […]