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On March 19, the American national defense company, Northrop Grumman, announced that they were selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a concept for a Lunar Railroad. This concept is part of DARPA’s 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study which seeks to “identify risks, commercial solutions over coming decade to enable future lunar economy”...

On April 1, North Korea announced that it has planned to launch at least 3 more spy satellites into Earth's orbit by the end of the year. North Korea put its first spy satellite in orbit in November of this year, according to Yonhap News Agency.  Pak Kyong-su, the vice director of the North Korean National Aerospace Technology Administration said...

A statement from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center said that two satellites it recently launched experienced "abnormalities" on March 14th. The launch occurred on March 13th and involved a Yuanzheng-1S upper stage aircraft carrying two satellites, the DRO-A and DRO-B, on a Long March-2C rocket. While the Long March's first and second stages operated normally but the Yuanzheng suffered an "abnormality"...

What Happened: SpaceX is supposedly building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under contract with  U.S. intelligence. Unnamed sources approached the media and discussed deepening ties with Musk's space program and national security agencies. The network is estimated to be worth around $1.8 billion, according to the National Reconnaissance Office, which manages spy satellites. This could be another extension of...

Failure to launch Space One, a Tokyo-based private firm established in 2018, attempted to launch a rocket carrying a Japanese government satellite today, March 13th. At around 11:01 am local time, it blew up about five seconds after liftoff. The rocket took off in Kushimmoto, Wakayama Prefecture, Western Japan, at Space Port Kii. The rocket was destroyed, and the government-supplied...