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Blue Origin delays New Glenn Mars launch amid FAA order, may seek exemption
Space.com reports: NASA's first Mars launch in more than five years will wait a little longer to get off the ground.
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Gravitics has unveiled Diamondback, a compact orbital carrier intended to host and deploy satellites and space-based missile interceptors, and to provide defensive capabilities for US national-security spacecraft. The platform targets on-orbit protection, rapid payload deployment and interceptor integration for contested-space missions.
The U.S. military is close to fielding two new remote‑controlled jammers that can temporarily disrupt Chinese and Russian intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites, bringing the Pentagon’s active counter‑space toolkit to three distinct capabilities, according to new Space Force data.
As space rapidly becomes a contested warfighting domain, armed forces should apply hard‑won lessons from the air domain—dispersed basing, integrated training, layered defenses, and streamlined acquisition—to shape doctrine, force structure and resilience in orbit. The air domain offers practical templates for C2, sustainment and operational resilience.
During testimony, the Pentagon’s nominee for space policy said he will streamline collaboration between the U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office, rework organizational responsibilities to speed intelligence-to-action cycles, and sharpen U.S. posture to address China’s expanding space capabilities.
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