A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the SBIRS GEO Flight 5 missile-warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on May 18, 2021. (Image credit: United Launch Alliance)
The mission, called Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 5 (SBIRS Geo-5), was delayed 24 hours after an issue cropped up during fueling operations on Monday (May 17).
That delay came after the launch team pushed back the target launch time earlier in the countdown, as part of a collision avoidance maneuver to ensure the rocket would not fly close to an object already in orbit. (ULA never specified what object they were trying to avoid.)
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Space Force Commander Fired After Badmouthing the Military on a Conservative Podcast
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A Space Force lieutenant colonel has been removed from his post after claiming on a conservative podcast that Marxist ideologies are overrunning America’s armed forces, CNN and Military.com reported Sunday.
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Earlier this week, Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier appeared on The Steve Gruber Show to tout his new book,
Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military. As you might suspect from that title, Lohmeier has some strong views about the state of the military these days, which he talked about at length on the podcast:
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