The strategy of the United States (🇺🇸) in space is changing and the Space Development Agency’s new constellation is a perfect example.
It will consist of two components: the Transport Layer and the Tracking Layer.
More on each layer in the short thread below 👇
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The Transport Layer
This constellation will consist of 300-500 satellites to provide military data and connectivity. The satellites will be deployed in orbits ranging from 750 kilometers to 1,200 kilometers.
The full constellation will…
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… enable that 95% the Earth’s surface will have at least two satellites in view at any given time, while 99% of the locations on the Earth will have at least one satellite in view.
Footage of one of several explosions that struck Saky airbase in Crimea, Russian-controlled #Ukraine (🇺🇦).
The air base is home to Russian (🇷🇺) Su-30SM and Su-24M/MR aircraft and is 200 kilometres away from the frontline.
The air base was actively used by Russia during the last few months.
This is a significant air defence failure (if it’s true that the base got hit by long-range missiles) or they simply didn’t expect Ukraine was able to hit the base (which would be an intelligence failure).
Two RAAF E-3 Wedgetails out of Nellis AFB, Nevada (🇺🇸). 'THDR01' is currently flying around the Nevada Security sites while 'ASY253' seems to be returning to Australia (🇦🇺).
Former US Marine Trevor Reed has been exchanged for Konstantin Yaroshenko.
The Russian pilot is serving a 20-year sentence for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the US after his arrest in 2010. Reed was recently sentenced to 9 years in prison for assaulting a officer in Moscow.
It looks like the prisoner exchange happened in Ankara, #Turkey (🇹🇷) earlier today.