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Japan launches IGS Optical 8 reconnaissance satellite into orbit. This is Japan’s first space launch in 2024, Space reports. An H-2A rocket carrying the IGS Optical 8 satellite was launched from the Tanegashima Cosmodrome on January 12 at 06:44 Kyiv time. According to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which built and operates the H-2A rocket, the launch […]
The Air Force reported on combat operations on the night of October 12 and for the first time officially lit up a makeshift British SAM for an AIM-132 ASRAAM air-to-air missile. The Air Force of Ukraine said that on the night of October 12, the racists launched 33 Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones across Ukraine. The attack […]
On October 6, Amazon launched a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral with the first two satellites of the Project Kuiper network – Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2. The satellites deployed into orbit at an altitude of about 500 kilometers about 18 minutes after launch. KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 will allow the company to […]
The Ukrainian Air Force showed a video of the AIM-132 ASRAAM missile launcher. The video shows how Ukrainian defenders used the system to destroy a Russian Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drone on the night of October 3. The entire installation is not visible in the video, only a part of it. Thanks to this, the military analyst […]
The first video of the launch of a Ukrainian missile, which appears to be an S-200 adapted for striking ground targets, is posted online. The footage of the missile launch appeared in Ukrainian public media covering the war, and later was shown by Russian military propagandists. It is not known for certain whether the video […]