The Air Force announced Sunday that three explosive ordnance disposal airmen deployed to Sather AB, Iraq, had been killed by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. Another airman was injured in the blast. USAF is withholding names pending notification of next of kin.
SDA Outlines Missile Tracking Satellite Plan
April 16, 2021
The Defense Department's Space Development Agency wants to blanket Earth with a constellation of low-cost, open-architecture data-relay and missile-tracking satellites whose sheer numbers, along with their 1,000-kilometer-high orbits, would theoretically thwart some modes of interference—but not all. With all going according to plan so far, SDA expects to launch five…