DMSP 13 Failure Raises Space Oversight Questions
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Credit: USAF
U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) took nearly a month to openly acknowledge to the press that one of the country’s oldest satellites fragmented into 43 pieces in orbit last month, creating a debris field. This is viewed by some as too slow and underscores an argument that the military is the...
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