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SpaceX Just Launched Pentagon's X-37B Spaceplane on a Mysterious Mission - C C - Sep 8, 2017
http://www.sciencealert.com/spacex-successfully-launches-the-x-37b-the-pentagon-s-secretive-autonomous-space-drone
EXCERPT: [...] The mission is also significant because it marked the first time SpaceX has been chosen to launch for the Air Force - a coup for the California firm started in 2002 by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. The launch took place as the Pentagon sounds the alarm about the importance of defending the ultimate high ground should war break out in space....
RE: SpaceX Just Launched Pentagon's X-37B Spaceplane on a Mysterious Mission - RainbowUnicorn - Sep 8, 2017
(Sep 8, 2017 02:56 AM)C C Wrote: http://www.sciencealert.com/spacex-successfully-launches-the-x-37b-the-pentagon-s-secretive-autonomous-space-drone
EXCERPT: [...] The mission is also significant because it marked the first time SpaceX has been chosen to launch for the Air Force - a coup for the California firm started in 2002 by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. The launch took place as the Pentagon sounds the alarm about the importance of defending the ultimate high ground should war break out in space....
With contraversial emerging states gaining capability to put 'who knows what' in to orbit and consequentaly knock things out of orbit it should be among front line prioraties to ensure the civilised world maintains communication control & commerce security.