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The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga-class cruiser.. Anti-satellite weapons, which are primarily surface-to-space and air-to-space missiles, have been developed by the United States, the USSR/Russia, India and the People's Republic of China.
Space Centre Australia secured land for main site facilities for space launch, located 43km east of Weipa, close to RAAF Scherger in 2023. [90] Final approvals may come under Mokwiri Aboriginal Corporation. [90] Previously a Cape York Space Agency was established by the government to develop a facility for Ukrainian Zenit launches at
The following is a list of rocket launchers Note, rocket launchers are different from recoilless rifles , recoilless guns , grenade launchers or anti-tank guided missiles . List
Space weapons are weapons used in space warfare. They include weapons that can attack space systems in orbit (i.e. anti-satellite weapons), attack targets on the earth from space or disable missiles travelling through space. In the course of the militarisation of space, such weapons were developed mainly by the contesting superpowers during the ...
1962 - Pakistan launched Rehbar-I and was the first country in Islamic world to successfully launch a vessel in outer space. 1963 - The USSR launches Vostok 6, Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman (and first civilian) in space and to orbit Earth. She remained in space for nearly three days and orbited the Earth 48 times.
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Comparison of space station cargo vehicles; Comparison of orbital rocket engines; Comparison of solid-fuelled orbital launch systems; List of space launch system designs; List of artillery § Rockets; List of rocket aircraft; Lists of weapons; Model rocket; NATO reporting name (has lists of various Soviet missiles)
[13] [14] [15] On June 14, 1949, the US launched the first mammal into space, a rhesus macaque monkey named Albert II, on a sub-orbital flight, though Albert II died when the parachute failed. [16] On July 22, 1951, the Soviets launched the Soviet space dogs, Dezik and Tsygan, who were the first dogs in space and the first to safely return. [17]