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  • Space Heritage – First U.S Satellite Lands on the Far Side of the Moon

    Sixty-four years ago on April 23, 1962, the United States successfully launched the Ranger 4 satellite onboard an Atlas-Agena B rocket from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Florida, enroute to the moon. The mission of the Ranger spacecraft was to obtain high-resolution photographs of the lunar

  • New Deep Space Radar Capability Employed Early

    To counter growing threats from the proliferation of man-made objects and potential adversary activities on orbit, the U.S. Space Force has fast-tracked the employment of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC), a system designated ST-25.DARC is a global network of three ground-based space