Stratolaunch is preparing for the first captive-carry flight of the Talon test vehicle on the Roc mother ship, marking a major step toward the start of hypersonic tests.
The National Reconnaissance Office on Sept. 28 increased its work with commercial space companies, awarding six study contracts for commercial radio frequency remote sensing.
European countries are beefing up security around their oil and gas facilities after the European Union and the Danish and Swedish governments declared the damage caused to both Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea as sabotage.
Visiting South Korea’s Sacheon Air Base on Sept. 28 to observe a test flight of the first prototype KF-21, senior Indonesian defense officials said the advancement of the aircraft into flight testing was a “tangible manifestation” of the platform’s development.
NASA is looking to mid-November as the most likely opportunity for its next attempt at launching the Artemis I test flight around the Moon, though it has not completely ruled out a late-October opportunity, agency officials said Sept. 27.
The UK Space Agency has awarded £4 million ($4.3 million) to two companies—ClearSpace and Astroscale—to design spacecraft capable of removing space debris, such as defunct satellites.
All of the fatal civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in 2021 occurred in the waning days of the war in Afghanistan, according to a new report, as the Pentagon promises a new mitigation plan will further lessen the number of innocents harmed.
Korean Air Aerospace Division has released more details concerning its KUS-LW “loyal wingman” concept, weeks after the company was chosen to design a low-o
NASA's probe slammed into a targeted asteroid on Sept. 26 to demonstrate a kinetic impact strategy as a potential means of shielding the Earth from a disastrous collision in future.
Kyiv’s government has decided to strip the Iranian ambassador of his accreditation after Iranian loitering munitions purchased by Russia began striking targets in Ukraine.
A bipartisan group of senators want the Pentagon to have more authority in managing industry production lines for critical munitions, with the aid to Ukraine highlighting potential shortages in the industrial base.
UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has said funding pledges by new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss—to raise defense spending to 3% of gross domestic product—will be realized.
In response to the approach of Hurricane Ian toward the eastern Gulf of Mexico, NASA announced early Sept. 26 that the Artemis I Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule will be rolled back from the launchpad to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.
