The mission of one expanding Japanese satellite system can be described simply: strengthen the vital GPS navigation constellation operated by…
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U.S. space defense leaders follow a precise set of priorities in pursuing their goal of space superiority: develop next-generation missile…
For years, military leaders warned that space was becoming a contested domain. In the spring of 2026, U.S. Space Command…
A rising Russian rocket sloughs off what appear, at first, to be the usual pieces of second-stage debris. One Chinese satellite…
Early on February 24, 2022, before Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, a different kind of assault occurred thousands of kilometers…
It’s about 9 meters long, looks like a miniature space shuttle and stayed in space for 2½ years during one…
For decades, United States officials spoke about space in careful, almost antiseptic language. Satellites were “assets.” Orbit was a “domain.”…
It’s one of Hollywood’s most heart-pounding depictions of fighting in space. With the shield generators aboard the second Death Star finally…
Make it appealing for private industry to bring the latest space innovations to the military and strengthen the nation’s warfighting…
On a cloudy September evening in 2023, a small-lift orbital rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California carrying…