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Pentagon chose launchers of new generation to replace Atlas V

The US Department of Defense selected contractors in a tender to service the next multi-year cycle of national security and defense space launches, learned BulgarianMilitary.com citing Defence24.

Surveillance from space: the US is preparing to repulse hypersonic missiles

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.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship SN4 exploded in South Texas (video)

Trials of SpaceX’s third Starship SN4 prototype at the Boca Chica test site in south Texas failed. The explosion occurred while testing the Raptor methane engine. The broadcast was conducted on the LabPadre YouTube channel, learned BulgarianMilitary.com.

US is about to conduct a series of experiments aboard the secret unmanned spacecraft

The U.S. Department of Defense is about to conduct a series of experiments aboard the unmanned X-37B spacecraft, which will be put into low Earth orbit for the sixth time in 10 years.

Curiosity’s mission team continues to control the rover from home

Because of coronavirus, employees of many enterprises and companies in all countries began to switch to remote work from home to protect themselves from Covid-19 and thereby reduce the burden on doctors and medical facilities.

Starship – the SpaceX’s third prototype has exploded during a test

The latest Starship spacecraft prototype, which SpaceX is developing to fly to Mars, exploded on Friday during a test at a test site near the village of Boca Chica (Texas, USA), learned BulgarianMilitary.com.