Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has proposed opening two miles of waterfront property on the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan for public recreational use, such as fishing, hiking, and biking. The Detroit Free Press reports that Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, proposed the move in a letter to Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne. Air Guard officials told the newspaper that they are “definitely giving it a look.” It would be land that the Air Guard no longer needs for military purposes.
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…