North Korea has claimed to have successfully fired a new locally developed cruise missile capable of reaching targets across the Korean peninsula and into Japan.
The tracking service will use laser ranging to monitor objects in low Earth orbit, offering satellite operators the ability to identify collision threats and maneuver accordingly.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the intention to order the six additional aircraft in a speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair on Sept.11.
Originally planned for Aug. 24, the spacewalk was delayed when NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei experienced a pinched nerve in his neck and had to be replaced for the excursion.
Woolpert, a century-old mapping and surveying specialist, has acquired Optimal GEO, an Alabama-based company that specializes in providing photogrammetric mapping, orthography, lidar and GIS data to defense and intelligence communities.
A group of California lawmakers is pressing the Department of the Air Force to base the U.S. Space Force’s new training command in their home state, while warning that political interests should not influence future basing decisions and pointing to ongoing criticism of U.S. Space Command’s move to Alabama.
U.S. Navy F-35Cs and CMV-22Bs are in the South China Sea for the first time as the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group and the embarked Carrier Air Wing 2 are operating in the area.
A group of four amateur astronauts poised to become the first privately funded orbital spaceflight crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for launch at 8 p.m. EDT on Sept. 15.
Airbus Helicopters has selected its site in Broughton, North Wales, as a potential final assembly line for the H175M helicopter being proposed for the UK’s New Medium Helicopter requirement.
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a multifunctional datalink featuring a compact, hexagonal array and a stealthy waveform, with the goal of offering a new retrofit option for existing combat aircraft and a new networking tool for future combat aircraft.
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told journalists at RAF Waddington, England, that the UK's new Protector remotely piloted air system will enable the Royal Air Force to operate on the “world stage.”
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After several cancellations over decades, the Navy’s revived interest in the Joint Air-to-Surface Missile family also reveals pursuit of more capabilities for it.
BlackSky, a small-satellite-based startup providing geospatial intelligence to government agencies and others, will begin trading as a public company Sept. 10 after a successful reverse-merger with a special purpose acquisition company.
As Sierra Space continues final assembly of the Dream Chaser orbital spaceplane ahead of its launch in late 2022, the Colorado-based company is expanding its partnership with Japanese trading corporation Kanematsu to facilitate development of an international commercial economy in low Earth orbit.
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Sept. 9 despite a smoke alarm that sounded on the ISS several hours before the excursion.
