Informs that the United States military is preparing to launch a spacecraft to the Moon for the first time since the early days of space exploration. The Deep Space Program Science Experiment, which is nicknamed Clementine; What scientists involved with the project hope to collect; The project ...
A Summary of the US Space Program and Its Relationship to the Military: The Science and Technology Behind Our Next Theater of ConflictIn order to appreciate the full story of the current and future uses of outer space, it is necessary to reflect on the history of space exploration and the ...
A U.S. military joint task force did some training recently off the Florida coast to help with astronaut splashdowns. "Space travel is expected to increase, so the search and rescue alert is going to increase, and we will be ready to answer that call," Maj. Ryan Schieber, lead planner...
A United States military contract with SpaceX has been modified to allow future launches aboard reused Falcon 9 boosters, saving the US tens of millions of dollars. The series of Lockheed Martin built GPS III satellites operated by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has...
The US Space Force canceled a multibillion-dollar Northrop Grumman Corp. program to develop a classified military communications satellite because of increased costs, difficulties developing its payload and a schedule delay, according to a regulatory filing and people familiar with the decision. Northrop...
"The space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China's growing ability to deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries and enhances China's conventional military capabilities," Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, wrote in testimony...
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Since 2010, the United States military has been operating a pair of small reusable spaceplanes that conduct secretive long-duration flights in low Earth orbit. Now officially operating under the auspices of the newly formed Space Force, the X-37Bs allow the military to conduct in-house research...
civilian unmanned airship unintendedly entered US airspace last week due to force majeure and was shot down by the US military on Saturday. For days, US politicians and media have hyped up this incident, claiming it was a spy in the sky. Is this a part of China's surveillance program ...
See photos and images of the U.S. military's XS-1 experimental space plane project in this Space.com gallery. The XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane program is led by DARPA.