Space
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Mar- 2021 -12 March
France Runs Satellite War Game in European First
France on Friday prepared to simulate an attack by a hostile power on one of its satellites in a war game scenario the government said is less outlandishly futuristic than it may seem.
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10 March
France Conducts First Military Drills in Space
France has begun its first military exercises in space to test its ability to defend its satellites, in a sign of the growing competition in Earth's orbit.
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Feb- 2021 -2 February
Iran Launches New Satellite-Carrying Rocket
Iran's defense ministry on Monday said it has test-launched a new satellite carrier with its "most powerful" solid-fuel engine to date, state TV reported.
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Jan- 2021 -15 January
Colorado Politicians Lament Trump’s Pick of Alabama as Space Command HQ
Several Colorado politicians have reached out to President-elect Biden in the hopes he will reverse Trump's “horrendous decision” to base the US Space Command’s headquarters in Alabama instead of Colorado.
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Oct- 2020 -23 October
NATO to Build ‘Space Center’ in Germany
The NATO alliance is to build a headquarters for space operations at its airbase in Ramstein in Germany, to counter a rising Russian and Chinese threat, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.
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13 October
US Army Partners With SpaceX to Deliver Military Cargo Anywhere In an Hour
The US military is partnering with SpaceX to explore the possibility of transporting military systems in a rocket anywhere on the globe in merely 60 minutes.
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8 October
New Race for Space: DoD Official Outlines US Space Strategy
On the heels of a meeting in which the US space chief declared that America must be prepared for warfare in space, a Department of Defense official detailed the country's space strategy.
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6 October
US Agency Invests to Build Space-Based Missile-Tracking System
The US Space Development Agency announced contracts worth $342 million for two companies to build the first stage of a space-based missile-tracking system.
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Sep- 2020 -16 September
US Space Force Chief: ‘Prepare for War in Space’
The United States doesn’t want to engage in warfare in space but must be prepared for such a scenario, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. Raymond said.
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Jul- 2020 -24 July
France Steps Up Space Spending to Gird for ‘Unfriendly’ Moves
France will increase spending on its new Space Force program by several hundreds of millions of euros as it prepares for potential "unfriendly maneuvers" among world powers.
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