Author: Staff Writer

By Marina Malenic Expressing concern that the Air Force is "playing games" with important military satellite acquisitions, John Young — undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics — said...

The score was one hit, one miss, in an Aegis system ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the Pacific where the Navy for the first time ran the BMD test...

A hefty, unneeded component that astronaut Clay Anderson last year heaved off the International Space Station now is coming down to Earth, with reentry and an impact area unknown. The...

McCain In 2004 Sponsored Bill Containing Retirement Of Shuttle As voters prepare to pick the next president in the election tomorrow, a key question regardless of who wins is what...

On Mercury, True North Is Very Close To Magnetic North A U.S. spaceship early this month raced just 125 miles above the planet closest to the sun, Mercury, and came...

United States Needs Cheap, Quickly Orbited Satellites To Replace Those Lost In Anti-Satellite Attacks: Gates The leader of the largest war-making force on the planet told members of an august...

The Phoenix Mars Lander is weakening in the bitterly cold northern arctic winter on Mars and soon will freeze to death, but not before achieving a stellar success as a...

Israel must work with the United States to advance missile defense capabilities, soon, before Iran develops nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems that could annihilate Israel, the U.S.-based Missile Defense...

The Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 (JSOW C-1) variant completed its critical design review, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. JSOW C-1 adds moving maritime target capability and a two-way data link to...

The United States has deployed an X-band radar and 120 personnel to operate it in Israel, in the Negev Desert, to detect incoming enemy missiles such as the Iranian Shahab-3,...