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Op zondag 30 augustus 2026 12:18 schreef Puzzie het volgende:
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Ik heb er 4 geadopteerd

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Op zondag 30 augustus 2026 13:39 schreef Opzoeknaarvrienden het volgende:
Bizar hoe geroutineerd het allemaal lijkt. En vooral gaaf, de enorme Falcon Heavy lijkt gewoon op een dwerg wanneer je de lanceertoren van Starship daar ziet

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Op zondag 30 augustus 2026 14:11 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Beetje te geroutineerd. Rond max-q had een engineer het over een Falcon 9.

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US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons into space

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The US has deployed weapons in space, the US military has confirmed, in an extraordinary public announcement that analysts warn will accelerate a high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit.

The US secretary of the air force, Troy Meink, said Washington had active “on-orbit” weapons, meaning they had been deployed and were circling the globe.

“Today, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist,” Meink said on Monday at the annual Air, Space, Cyber Conference. “This is why the United States now has, on orbit, space-control weapons.”

Meink said he would not go into the “specifics” of the weapons. However, a US Space Force spokesperson said space control could refer to “employing kinetic [combat] and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities”.

The statement added that “these capabilities can be employed for offensive and defensive purposes”.

Responding to the US announcement, China’s foreign ministry said Washington was “preparing for war in outer space”, and warned against turning space “into a battlefield, as well as an arms race there”. In Moscow, the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that Russia believed “that space must be free of any weapon” and called for “the complete demilitarisation of space”.

It has been an open secret that the US, Russia and China are working on space weapons, which could include signal jammers to disable other satellites or more “kinetic” options including those that fire projectiles.

Still, space experts warn a public confirmation of such capabilities in orbit for the first time could accelerate a risky arms race.