The Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4 lands at NASA 's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility, Fla., May 7, 2017. USAF photo. Editor’s note: This story was updated Oct. 27 at 10 p.m. EDT. The Air Force’s...
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A rendering portrays Lockheed Martin's GPS III satellite on orbit for the Air Force. Illustration courtesy of Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin’s first on-orbit GPS III satellite on Oct. 21 successfully connected to its upgraded operational control system, known as the...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the AFSPC-11 mission for the Air Force lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., on April 14, 2018. The launch carried the experimental small satellite Mycroft into orbit....
Concern over cyber threats to commercial space assets is driving industry executives to seek White House designation of space as critical national infrastructure. They’re forming a Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or Space-ISAC, amid growing concern that foreign adversaries could exploit weak cybersecurity in ...
Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, the first person to make a spacewalk, a member of the joint American and Russian Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, and the cosmonaut most likely to have walked on the moon if Russia’s moon program had not ended...
Alexei Leonov, the first person to make a spacewalk and the Russian most likely to have been first on the moon if the Soviet Union had won the space race, died in Moscow on Oct 11 at age 85. Leonov was one of the first ...
Acting Air Force Secretary Matthew Donovan is shown United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV rocket on Space Launch Complex-37 on July 19, 2019, at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. Air Force photo by Jared Trimarch. Anticipating new space assets and the need...
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a critical payload for the National Reconnaissance Office denoted NROL-71 lifted off from Space Launch Complex-6 on Jan. 19, 2019. ULA photo. The United Launch Alliance will receive another $1.2 billion...
President Donald Trump formally revived US Space Command to oversee daily space operations in an Aug. 29 White House ceremony, the most recent step in the federal government’s overhaul of military space organizations. “The dangers to our country constantly evolve, and so must we,” Trump ...
