A joint space domain awareness mission between the National Reconnaissance Office and U.S. Space Force launched Sunday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The SILENTBARKER/ NROL-107 mission flew on a
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Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office and a four-time Wash100 awardee, said a joint satellite launch mission of NRO and the U.S. Space Force will serve as a “watchdog” to
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Deborah Lee James, chair of the Defense Business Board and former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, said opening up the National Security Space Launch program to the addition of a third
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United Launch Alliance added a two-foot auxilliary target to NASA’s Space Launch System for use in the Artemis II manned mission to the Moon. The target, which is installed in the in-space
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NASA and Boeing have completed a joint checkpoint review of the first crewed flight mission of the latter’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Ninety-five percent of the certification for the
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The third spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series, dubbed GOES-18, officially became GOES West on Thursday following its transition into operational service. GOES West will
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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar-orbiting weather satellite and a demonstration of NASA’s heat shield technology took off Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base
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A satellite that Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary built for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to help track hypersonic missiles and provide missile warning capabilities received “first light” data from
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Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisitions and integration, said he expects the U.S. Space Force’s acquisition strategy for the third phase of the National Security Space Launch
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA plans to launch NOAA’s third polar-orbiting environmental satellite to orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket no later than Nov. 1. NASA
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