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Such a fantastic event only happened once in the history when a classified ASAT ( anti-satellite ) missile was fired towards an orbiting satellite. The development and advancement in anti-satellite arms were slowed down after the period of the cold war. In recent years its growth has boomed again, and the U.S, Russia, and China are fielding new bigger weapons. Pearson is the only pilot on Earth who executed a mission in space and that too with precision. Pearson achieved this on 13th September 1985, in the skies over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, the target satellite was US P78-1 Solwind. Pearson got promoted to the higher rank of Major General along with this remarkable achievement. It was the most massive missile ever equipped on an F-15 Eagle. Vought designed the weapon. It was based on the Short Range Attack Missile design, a nuclear-tipped missile used by the B-52 bomber. They added a second stage and modified the missile to ascend straight into space, it...

As per a NASA press release, a total of four US spy satellites were launched into orbit at 9:46 AM EDT on Wednesday morning form the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in Virginia – carrying the NROL-129 mission to space for Space Force and the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).  The NRO is handling the manufacturing and running of the United States’ fleet comprised of spy satellites. These are classified, and therefore we do not know much about the profile of the NROL-129 spacecraft’s mission once it has entered the orbit. There is also no word on the final orbital trajectory. NRO officials wrote in a press kit, ‘NROL-129 supports NRO’s overall national security mission to provide intelligence data to United States senior policymakers, the intelligence community and Department of Defense.’ The launch vehicle is called Minotaur IV, and it stands at the height of 24 meters. It has a total of four (04) launch stages. The lower stages – first three out of the four – are...