Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense

September 03, 2015

CIA, US special forces launch drone campaign in Syria: media
Washington (AFP) Sept 1, 2015
The CIA and US special forces are carrying out a secret campaign using armed drones to target and kill Islamic State leaders in Syria, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The clandestine program is separate from America's wider military operations against IS fighters, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed US officials. Among those so far killed is Junaid Hussain, a jihadist hacker from Britain who the Pentagon said was recruiting Islamic State sympathizers to carry out lone wolf attacks in th ... read more

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MUOS-4 Responding Normally To Ground Control Post-Launch The U.S. Navy's fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-4) satellite, built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), is talking from space to the satellite control team at the Naval Spacecraft Operations C ... more		New NGA global map advances geophysics and nonproliferation A team of researchers led by scientists at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency published a new map Sept. 1 that characterizes the Earth's radioactivity and offers new and potential future ap ... more		Moscow, Tehran Sign Roadmap For S-300 Deal Implementation Russia and Iran have signed this week a memorandum on the implementation of the agreement for the delivery of the Russian S-300 missile defense systems to Iran, a senior official from the Russian Fe ... more
				China to flex military muscle in WWII parade A huge military parade rolls through Tiananmen Square on Thursday as Beijing commemorates the 70th anniversary of Japan's WWII defeat, but major Western leaders are staying away from the show of strength. ... more		Obama hails ties with Japan on VJ day US President Barack Obama used the 70th anniversary of the end World War II in the Pacific to honor the US war dead and herald remade ties with Japan Wednesday. ... more

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Communist Party takes star role in China's war parade The undoubted star of China's giant military parade marking 70 years since Japan's World War II defeat - and countless television shows on the conflict - will be the ruling Communist Party, celebrating a victory historians say was largely won by others. ... more		US trains in Black Sea with Ukraine's depleted navy The United States is co-hosting drills in the Black Sea with what is left of Ukraine's devastated navy, which lost about two thirds of its sailors and ships after Russia seized Crimea last year. ... more		GE and Lockheed validate compact rotating detonation ramjet for hypersonic missiles JWST red dots reveal rapidly growing early black holes Spaceflight study links astronaut biology to reversible shifts in epigenetic age		N. Korea warns Seoul over twisting peace deal; drone crosses border North Korea on Wednesday accused the South of misrepresenting their agreement to defuse tensions and warned the hard-won deal was being undermined by claims Pyongyang had made an apology for border landmine blasts. ... more
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Russia, China discuss joint mobile satellite communications RTI Systems Concern and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) discussed possible joint projects on the development of mobile satellite communications at the international MAKS-201 ... more		Russia launches Proton rocket with British satellite Russia on Friday successfully launched a Proton rocket with a British satellite in the first such launch since an engine failure in May resulted in a Mexican satellite being destroyed. ... more		As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future Fire on Ice: The Arctic's Changing Fire Regime Cosmic krypton timestamps reveal Australia landscape evolution and resources		Destination Red Planet: Will Billionaires Fund a Private Mars Colony With over 1,800 billionaires in the world, a sizeable investment from at least one of them could provide a major push to colonize the Red Planet. For nonprofit organization Mars One, the right wealt ... more
GSLV Launches India's Latest Communication Satellite GSAT-6 In its ninth flight (GSLV-D6) conducted today, (August 27, 2015), India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, equipped with the indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS), successfully launched GSA ... more		Green Propellant Infusion Mission Receives Propulsion System NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission to develop a high-performance, low-toxicity fuel and propulsion system for spacecraft has passed a major milestone. A green propellant propulsion subsystem, ... more		Latest Galileos closing in on launch Europe's ninth and tenth Galileo satellites have been attached to the dispenser that will hold them during their flight up into space, then release them into their planned orbits. Galileo 9 and 10 a ... more		ESA Chief Warns Not to Politicize Partnership With Russian Space Program The ongoing crisis in ties between Russia and the West should not tarnish their cooperation when it comes to space exploration, according to Johann-Dietrich" class="highlight">Worner, head of the Eu ... more

	China rocket parts hit villager's home: police, media Debris from a rocket carrying a Chinese satellite into orbit crashed into a villager's home minutes after the launch, local police and media reports said. ... more		The second China-US high-level meeting on satellite matters was held On the morning of August 31, the second China-US high-level meeting on satellite matters was held in Maryland, America. Dr. Zheng Guoguang, Administrator of China Meteorological Administrator (CMA), ... more

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