Teal Group’s Worldwide Mission Model Online is now approaching 35,000 space payloads through 2031, and that’s only with less than 12,000 Starlink satellites included. That Starlink number may end up being well over 30,000 and could even surpass 40,000, but I’m just not ready yet to start inputting that many additional payloads. Soon, though.

The Trident II represents the SLBM characteristics sought by the Navy since the original Polaris pro-gram of 1960: the ability to attack pinpoint hardened targets from waters off the continental United States. However, this capability has arrived as the United States and the former Soviet Union are drastically cutting their strategic forces after the end of the Cold War.

Raytheon Technologies was created in April 2020 by the merger of Raytheon Co. and United Technologies. The global COVID pandemic and its effects, including reduced commercial aircraft demand, supply chain disruptions and cost pressures, have limited an early assessment of how the merger is meeting management’s originally stated objectives.

It now looks like the Russians will continue to participate in the International Space Station (ISS) past 2024. As you may recall, on July 21 it was reported that Yuri Borisov, the director of Russia’s national space agency (Rosaviacosmos), said that Russia would pull out of the ISS in 2024. This caused a minor stir in the West because the station depends on the Zvezda Service Module for a lot of important stuff, including living quarters, life support systems, electrical power distribution, data processing systems, flight control systems and propulsion systems.