Capt. Elizabeth Forbes, lead, AEHF-5 Launch Operations, of the Space and Missile Systems Center, runs through the countdown checklist while on console inside the historic Hanger AE Launch Control Center at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., on Aug 8, 2019. SMC...
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Derek Tournear, shown at a Sept. 18, 2019, media roundtable held during AFA's 2019 Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., has been picked to be the Space Development Agency first permanent director. Defense Department photo. Derek Tournear,...
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...
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...
