Government/Military

By Geoff Fein The Navy is currently not looking to add a maritime variant of the Air Force Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) to its weapons inventory, relying...

General Warns That Delaying Missile Defense Such As In Europe Would ‘Severely Hurt’ Ability To Defend United States, Allies Against Enemies U.S.-European Missile Defense Scheduled To Be Operational By 2013,...

Updated — November 14, 2008 – 9:10 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Nov. 14 Mission: STS-126 Launch...

U.S. Nuclear Weapons May No Longer Provide Credible Deterrence, Tauscher Says, Urging Nukes Reduction Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), whose subcommittee oversees U.S. missile defense efforts, today questioned the value of...

Kazakhstan will send a cosmonaut to the International Space Station a year or so from now, the Kazakh National Space Agency announced. But funding arrangements for the flight haven’t yet...

The Hubble Space Telescope for the first time snapped a visible-light picture of a planet circling another star, NASA announced. The planet is called Formalhut b. While the Hubble and...

The United States should erect defenses against anti-satellite attacks, rather than merely attempting to deter assaults, according to an analyst. Deterrence may well not work, stated Robert Butterworth, president of...

NASA Administrator Mike Griffin is awaiting two studies probing how to shrink the yawning half-decade gap when NASA won’t be able to take even one astronaut to low Earth orbit....

A new software has demonstrated it can support the space and ground segments of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT), The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. This demonstration is one of...

A rogue state or terrorists could launch an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States that would kill more Americans than a nuclear strike on a major city, but...