Space

Mullen Declines To Say Whether U.S. Forces Will Shoot Down Any Missile That North Korea Launches Iran’s illicit nuclear materials development program likely has produced enough materials to make an […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] delivered the payload module for the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite, the company announced today. That Friday arrival makes three consecutive early […]

Iran is supplying SA-14 Gremlin surface-to-air missiles to Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan, who wish to launch a spectacular attack on U.S. and coalition forces in the nation that spawned the […]

NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket at the Army Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares […]

Iran plans to increase its nuclear materials production capacity to more than eight times its current size, Xinhua news agency reported. Iran plans to expand the 6,000 centrifuges to a […]

North Korea confirmed that it is poised to launch a missile, though the North said it was about to orbit a satellite, rather than to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, […]

The House this week will consider legislation to provide $1.4 billion for NASA earth science to fund critical satellite missions, funding that merits approval, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) said. […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) certified the GeoEye-1 satellite for meeting standards, GeoEye Inc. announced. That satellite now provides sub-half-meter ground resolution satellite imagery to NGA. This means GeoEye-1 is […]

Heat shield material for the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) passed a test, the company announced. The PICA-X heat shield material, which will be used in the Dragon spacecraft, underwent […]

The Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) III has rolled up a combined 200 years on orbit, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. That’s the longest total operational experience of any U.S. […]