At the very same time China is demanding Taiwan end the military relationship with the USA, they send jets to demonstrate how Taiwan can't sever ties with the USA.
By Yimou Lee and Martin Quinn Pollard
Taipei/Bejing - Chinese fighter jets crossed the median line (click here) of the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Friday in what the island's government slammed as a provocation, as a senior U.S. senator visited Taipei for a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen that China condemned.
China claims democratically-ruled Taiwan as its own territory and has ramped up military and political pressure to try and force the island to accept Chinese rule....
By Dave Minsky
Vandenberg Space Force Base (click here) will hold two launches in the next four days with one scheduled today, and one Sunday evening.
The first launch will be an unarmed Minotaur II intercontinental ballistic missile, in a first-ever test of a new re-entry vehicle developed by the Air Force, according to military officials.
The precise time of the launch was not provided Wednesday, but will take place this morning from the base, according to Vandenberg SFB officials.
The launch involves the first test of the Mk21A re-entry vehicle that the Air Force will use on future LGM-35A intercontinental ballistic missiles....
Except, there have been some problems with the space program. I think it is linked to cyber. Perhaps, not, but at the same time China is ratcheting up war mongering with Taiwan, this is happening to USA space programs.
By Barbara Starr
A test rocket carrying a component for a future US nuclear (click here) armed intercontinental ballistic missile blew up 11 seconds after takeoff Wednesday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, according to a statement from the base.
An investigation is underway and the debris only affected the immediate launch pad area.
This was the first test of the Mk21A Reentry Vehicle (RV) the part of the weapon that would hold a nuclear warhead if the system was operational. There was no nuclear element or armed component to this test.
The Mk21A is planned to be the reentry vehicle for the future LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missiles, a new ground-based nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile planned to replace the current Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile as a key element of the US nuclear deterrent capability....
That is not the only one. Recently, NASA lost control of CAPSTONE.
By Brian Bushard
NASA reestablished contact Thursday with a satellite (click here) on its way to study the moon’s orbit, two days after losing contact with the spacecraft – a critical project as the agency seeks to launch its first crewed moon landing in over five decades....
The USA military nuclear silos better be in good operating order.
