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Long March 4C lofts three Yaogan Weixing-31 satellites January 29, 2021 China launched its second orbital mission in 2021, orbiting three new satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Friday. The launch took place from Launch Pad 94 of the LC43 launch complex using the Long March-4C (Y31) rocket. The Yaogan Weixing-31 Group-02 mission comprises three satellites, with Chinese media referring to the new satellites to be used “for electromagnetic environment surveys and other relate...

Northrop Grumman to Improve South Korean Missile Defense As part of the phase one modernization efforts, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army installed JTAGS Block II in permanent facilities in Japan, Qatar, Italy, and most recently the Republic of Korea. Heres What You Need to Remember: Joint Army-Navy crews operate the JTAGS system, which consists of a deployable towed shelter and a crew of fifteen soldiers and sailors which provides 24-hour, 365 day-a-year, all weather threat monitoring. Defe...

China named the satellite ‘Yaogan Weixing-33’, but on May 22, 2019, another Yaogan Weixing-33 was lost on a Long March-4C launch failure that occurred a few minutes after launch from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The lost Yaogan-33 was likely the second satellite of the successor series to the Yaogan Weixing-1 (Jianbing-5) class space-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. The first satellite of this second generation SAR was Yaogan-29, launched on November 26, 2015. Another sm...

The University of North Georgia has announced three new books that are being published by the UNG Press. All the current releases share a military theme. B.J. Robinson, director of the University of North Georgia press, says that one of the books has already been published, with the next two coming up in the beginning of 2021. The books are, “Trust and Leadership: The Australian Army Approach to Mission Command, “Mission Command in the Israel Defense Forces,” and “1,271 Days a Soldier: ...

The U.S. Army-South Korean Military Partnership is Leaving North Korea Far Behind The deployment of the JTAGS system will improve battle-space awareness and improve missile defense. Heres What You Need to Remember: With the completion of phase one, the defense contractor has already begun executing phase two of the JTAGS Pre-planned Product improvement (P3I) modernization program. It includes the delivery of additional sensor processing capabilities and updating software architecture. Defense ...