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In a somewhat surprising move, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced last week it will rent out portions of the International Space Station (ISS) to private corporations. The plan also includes provisions to allow private astronauts to travel to the space station. According to a NASA press release, the new policy hopes to […]
Large clouds of orange smoke were seen billowing up for miles on Saturday, stemming from an incident at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station where SpaceX was testing its Crew Dragon capsule, the platform intended to ferry astronauts into orbit later this year. Few details are being released, but footage of the incident leaked onto Twitter […]
L3 Technologies is an aerospace and defence company. It specialises on Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) programs, and communications, network, and electronic systems. The company’s main customers are the United States military, domestic security agencies — such as the FBI, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]
U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford (center) is seen while protesters hold up signs before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C. The acting defense secretary is pitching the idea of creating a Space Force as a separate branch of the military to Congress. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images) […]
As the United States invests in new technologies aimed at defending its orbital assets against attack from foreign nations, Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson now claims in no uncertain terms the United States intends to field weapons in Earth orbit. While doing so would be a direct violation of the 1967 Outer Space […]
When President Trump first announced his intentions to establish a new branch of the armed forces dedicated specifically to orbital and space defense, many Americans scoffed at the prospect as science fiction, unaware that a similar enterprise was already in existence within the United States Air Force. Soon it became apparent that the debate about […]
In a world where the U.S. military employs massive cargo aircraft like the C-5 Super Galaxy, big is a word that can be attributed to a whole lot of airplanes. With an internal storage capacity that could feasibly transport not one, but two M1 Abrams battle tanks, the C-5 Super Galaxy is an engineering marvel. […]
Terry Virts is a U.S. Air Force test/fighter pilot and a NASA veteran of two spaceflights: a two-week mission on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2010 and a 200-day flight to the Space Station in 2015. He is a leader, speaker, and author who is currently working on multiple projects, including a new book […]
A new report published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies alleges that, despite maintaining the largest military on the planet, the United States is facing an uphill battle when it comes to defenses beyond it. While America may currently possess the broadest and most capable satellite infrastructure, to include control over the global […]
Engineers conducted a static hot-fire test of the Orion spacecraft’s Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor at a Northrop Grumman facility on March 20, 2019 in Elkton, Maryland. The 30-second test is one in a series of three tests aimed at qualifying the motor for human spaceflight, to help ensure Orion is ready from liftoff […]
NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Col. Nick Hague completed the first spacewalk of his career on Friday, March 22, 2019. He and fellow astronaut Anne McClain worked on a set of battery upgrades on the International Space Station’s starboard truss. In a Facebook post, he wrote: “Big thank you to the ground team down […]
Missile defense has been a priority in the United States for decades, in no small part because the threat posed by long-range, nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles remains as one of the few direct threats to the American mainland that could arise with little to no warning. In today’s world, it would be all but impossible to […]
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