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The U.S. Space Development Agency will deploy an orbiting constellation of satellites in near space by 2022 that are expected to protect against the impact of hypersonic missiles, Spacenews.com writes.

Blackjack is a project to deploy a constellation of 20 satellites in low Earth orbit by 2022 to demonstrate that a low-orbit satellite system can provide global high-speed communications.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launched the first Iranian military satellite, called Nur (Light), into space orbit, learned BulgarianMilitary.com citing Iranian news agency Mehr on April 22.

The Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and the Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan said that Russia, France, Italy, the US and Turkey sent technical proposals for the manufacture of the KazSat-2R

The Chinese Long March 3B launch vehicle crashed when launching the Indonesian communications satellite Palapa-N1 / Nusantara Dua, learned BulgarianMilitary.com.

TOKYO, (BM) - Japan on Sunday launched the new Optical 7 reconnaissance satellite from Tanegashima Cosmodrome in southwestern Kagoshima Prefecture. This was announced by the developer of the orbiter Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, learned BulgarianMilitary.com. Read more: Military and defense analyzes, comments, opinions and rating – Defweek.com …

PANAGYURISHTE, (BGM) - Russia’s Bars-M new military surveillance and mapping satellite will be manufactured by December 1, 2019, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday, TASS reported. The Bars-M military satellite is being developed by the Progress Space Rocket Center based in Samara in the Volga area, the defense chef said. "The…

PARIS, France (BulgarianMilitary.com) — The first of three identical military imaging satellites has been launched by France. It is expected all three satellites to reach full operational capability at the end of 2021, when they will replace the aging Helios system and provide 800 very high-resolution black and white, colour, and infrared images…

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Florida, the USA (BulgarianMilitary.com) – Lockheed Martin announced on 17th October 2018 that the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communication satellite, built by the company for the needs of the United States Air Force, was successfully launched on the same day at 12:15 a.m. from Cape…

CANAVERAL, Fla., the USA (BulgarianMilitary.com), 27 August 2018, Editor: Galina Zdravkova, Photo credit: Lockheed Martin/The US Air Force’s first GPS III is shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida before its launch in December 2018 Today the global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin announced that the company shipped last Monday, 20th…