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Why does this "Midas missile early warning satellite" have a tilting cone with such a complex black-and-white checkerboard pattern?
Clicking on images of historic satellites led me to the airvectors.net page Foundations Of Automated Space Technology which includes this image and passage:
A number of Samos satellites were also ...
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Have "space lasers" really been used to temporarily blind US satellites?
In CNN's video An exclusive look into how Space Force is defending America they talk with Gen. John W. Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, US Space Force.
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What does space have to do with providing "fresh water ... without the need for aquifers or pipes?" as Steven Kwast suggested?
In this speech, retired U.S. Air Force General Steven Kwast (ostensibly fired for promoting a U.S. Space Force over objections from the outgoing Secretary of the Air Force) suggests the U.S. space ...
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Is 18 Space Control Squadron (18 SPCS) which "detects, tracks, and identifies all artificial objects in Earth orbit" a part of Space Force?
According to their twitter account:
18 Space Control Squadron (18 SPCS) detects, tracks, and identifies all artificial objects in Earth orbit.
Is 18 SPCS a US military squadron? Is it a part of ...
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Is it correct that the US wants to form a new branch in the US Military as US Space Force?
I read in the news sometimes ago that Mike Pence proposed to form a new division in the US military as US Space Force. So I want know how it could be possible cause the space is not necessarily a ...
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Can satellites really be launched within hours with RocketLab?
Watching the Rocket Lab - In Focus Launch 10/28/2020 video linked below, there is a section at 12:50:
The ability to deploy new satellites to precise orbits in a ...
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What were the two circa 1965 semi-polar missions launched from Cape Canaveral?
Teslarati's SpaceX sets date for first Florida launch of its kind in more than half a century says
That November 1960 launch thus shut down East Coast polar launches to avoid overflying Cuba and ...
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Why does the U.S. military maintain their own weather satellites?
Why does the U.S. military maintain their own weather satellites like the DMSP Block 5D2?
What's the difference to "normal" weather satellites? Do they use other sensors or orbits?
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How close was the U.S. DoD to getting their own space shuttle?
This answer explains that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) had plans for their own space shuttle. The so-called "blue shuttle" would be operated by the U.S. Air Force out of Vandenberg Air Force ...
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Does the US Navy guard SpaceX drone ships and make sure bad actors don't abscond with critical technology on the high seas?
SpaceX loses the center core of its Falcon Heavy rocket due to choppy seas
While I thought my question How vulnerable could space launch vehicles be to a “lone gunman”? was just my tangential ...
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How does the US's 2008 debris cloud compare to India's 2019 and China's 2007 contributions?
The NPR News article NASA: Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Raised Threat To Space Station discusses last week's antisatellite test by India described further in answers to India just shot down ...
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