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Obama Administration Isn’t Seizing Control Of NPOESS To Fix Problems, Lawmakers Say The Senate Appropriations Committee expressed exasperation with the long-troubled National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, but...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz is examining the feasibility of missile defense systems mounted on aircraft, such as strike fighters. Interest in the Air Launched Hit-to-Kill systems...

Nuclear forces at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., passed inspections with the highest possible score. That’s a reversal from the situation two years ago, when six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles were...

North Korea May Launch Taepo Dong-2 Missile On Saturday, Perhaps Toward Hawaii: Reports U.S. missile defense systems very likely can demolish any missile that North Korea launches to hit U.S....

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket roared from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Saturday evening, to place a Geostationary Operational Environmental...

A Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite called SV-2 took a transcontinental flight on a C-17 from California to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., but only for a visit,...

Updated — June 26, 2009 – 7:15 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | * No Earlier Than (Tentative) |** To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 27 Mission: GOES-O...

NASA gave Wackenhut Services Inc. a $1.2 billion contract to provide security services at NASA installations, after Wackenhut successfully sued the space agency when it earlier had awarded the contract...

Making Another ESA Facility In South America, After Spaceport The European Space Agency (ESA) announced plans for a ground station to be built in South America, assuming negotiations are successful....

The first Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., for launch preparation, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. "This delivery is a significant...