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US Space Command Invites Commercial Firms to Classified Wargames Amid Nuclear Orbit Threats

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US Space Command hosts classified wargames, Apollo Insight, with commercial companies to simulate space threats, including a nuclear detonation in orbit, amid concerns over Russia's potential deployment of WMDs in space.

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The US Space Force has added Impulse Space and Relativity Space to the list of companies eligible to bid on its launch contracts under the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 program. Relativity Space is progressing with its heavy-lift Terran R rocket, while Impulse Space, specializing in in-space operations, was a surprise addition.

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