11.  Since becoming defense secretary, Rumsfeld has also reorganized some of the senior command structure for military space programs.

12.  Someone whose name has surfaced again and again is a retired four-star general with military space experience.

13.  The event was part of an international day to speak out against military space technology.

14.  The military space force said the first spacecraft will be launched from Svobodny in the second half of this year.

15.  US military space officials warned Canadian authorities that the launch trajectory would take the rocket over Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, along the eastern Canadian seaboard.

16.  Previous launches have been under the auspices of the Russian military space administration.

17.  The Israeli equipment as well as a Russian and a Mexican satellite were lost after launch from the Plesetsk military space base above the Arctic circle on Tuesday.