On Tuesday, it was announced that a spacecraft designed by Northrop Grumman would fly to the International Space Station to deliver over 8,000 pounds of equipment, including a Cygnus NG-16 sensor which will collect data on Earth's low orbit environment. This information will be sent to the Space Development Agency, who will then use the images to develop thermal sensors that can detect hypersonic missiles.
Also on Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of the North Korea dictator warned that North Korea would continue to build up their preemptive strike capabilities after South Korea and the U.S. decided to move forward with their joint military drills. She labeled the drills, which were defensive in nature, to be "invasion rehearsal."
On Thursday, Vice Admiral Jon Hill, Director of the Missile Defense Agency, said that the agency is looking into using artificial intelligence technology to sort through the terabytes of data that comes with each test the agency conducts. Since it is virtually impossible to assess all of that data by hand, VADM Hill thinks that AI might be the new solution.
Also on Thursday, Naval News reported via the Russian deputy defense minister that the state trials of the Tsirkon hypersonic missile would be complete by year's end and that the next phase of testing would include test firing the weapon from submarines.
