Weekly Briefing: Military Space

The latest military space news and analysis from Breaking Defense._______________________________________________

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Military Space Report

For The Pioneer In All Of Us

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Meet the rocket built for human exploration and scientific discovery on the Moon, Mars, and beyond: NASA's Space Launch System.

EXCLUSIVE: Imagery Industry Seeking Direct DoD Sales In Wake Of Tiny NRO Bid "I'd call it a VERY minor slow toe dip," said one stunned company rep, trying to find polite words.

Hypersonic Space Test Fuels Sino-American Arms Race "We need to recognize that we can no longer operate in the somewhat static 'spy vs spy' conditions of the Cold War and that we are dealing with a technologically advanced and ever-adapting adversary who has both the know-how and funding to continually push us on every front," former Pentagon official Doug Loverro said.

China 'Not An Olympian Power': Presumptive China Ambassador 'Confident' In US Top Senate Foreign Relations Republican sounds alarm after "China's test […] of a Fractional Orbital Bombardment system," saying it would "allow the PRC to completely circumvent US early warning capabilities and increase the vulnerability of the continental US to a nuclear attack."

US Must Build Space 'Superhighway' Before China Stakes Claims: Senior Space Force Officer Brig. Gen. John Olson, who advises CSO Gen. Jay Raymond on space logistics issues, believes the US must rapidly act to take the "first mover advantage" for itself to block Chinese ambitions, which could include territorial claims in space.

After China's 'Hypersonic' Test, US Alarm And Many Unanswered Questions The reported Chinese system was hinted at by Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall in an earlier speech, a source said, but Kendall now says his words were just a coincidence.

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