The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command successfully tested a target missile that was build using Government Furnished Equipment (GFE).
The Obama administration will only provide $8 billion to unclassified US military space programs for fiscal year 2013.
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India successfully launched an interceptor missile from Wheeler’s Island off the Odisha coast on Friday.
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Israel successfully tests the Arrow missile defense system on Friday. No interceptor was fired, the Arrow’s radar tracked a Blue Sparrow target fired from a F-15 together with the U.S. X-Band radar
The U.S. State Department has quietly warned Thales Alenia Space that export licenses needed by its U.S. suppliers might be denied.
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NATO’s missile shield command center will be in Ramstein Air Base, in Germany, a NATO spokesman said on Thursday.
Defense News reports that Israel and the U.S. may export the Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile system to South Korea after a U.S.-Israeli industrial team was given to green light to market the weapon.
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Three formerly classified reconnaissance satellites – KH-7, KH-8 and KH-9 – have been officially put on public display in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
U.S. Air Force photo
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news briefing that talks with Russia over NATO’s planned missile defense system have stalled.
Raytheon has developed a countermeasure system using quantum dots to protect satellites from anti-satellite missiles.
