Divine Strake Delayed: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s “Divine Strake” test planned for June 2 in Nevada has been postponed, due to a lawsuit filed by the Western Shoshone tribe. According to The (St. George, Utah) Spectrum, the tribe has concern about the spread of radioactivity that might be in the soil already. DTRA Director James Tegnelia confirmed in March that the agency was planning to explode 700 tons of ammonium nitrate at the Nevada Test Site to test the effect on hardened buried targets.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
