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Too Ambitious to be True? Iran Plans to Send Humans to Space by 2016
Mar 02, 2015 (Sputnik)
It was all smiles and cheers on Iran's National Day of Space Technology, celebrated this year on February 17, as the country unveiled a prototype of a spacecraf...
SBIRS constellation forms under one roof
Feb 20, 2015 (AFNS)
Airmen from the 460th Operations Group have made history by successfully completing the first series of Space Based Infrared System satellite and antenna commun...
Signals to Alien Worlds Pose No Threat of Invasion
Feb 18, 2015 (Sputnik)
Using powerful radio telescopes to broadcast "greetings messages" into space will not result in an alien invasion, a chief scientist at the Search for Extraterr...
Are Spy Agencies Funding Weather Weapon Research
Feb 18, 2015 (Sputnik)
Geoengineering, according to the Oxford Geoengineering programme, is 'the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth's natural systems to counteract clima...
China's Hypersonic Glide Vehicle: A Threat to the United States
Feb 18, 2015 (SPX)
Beijing's significant military advance has been furthered with its venture into hypersonic weapons systems. China is working on hypersonic cruise missiles for w...
AFSPC thinks outside of the box
Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)
Air Force Space Command is making new waves in improvements and creativity with their cost-saving "Out of the Box Innovation" program. The purpose of the progra...
Air Force conducts massive protected MILSATCOM test
Feb 12, 2015 (AFNS)
The Air Force concluded a six-month rigorous and complex multiservice operational test and evaluation of its Advanced Extremely High Frequency system in January...
Squad X Core Technologies Seeks to Bring Technological Advances to the Infantry Squad
Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)
Warfighters in aircraft, on ships and in ground vehicles have benefited tremendously from technological advances in recent decades, with advanced capabilities r...
US Concerned by Growing Expertise of China, Russia Space Capabilities
Feb 10, 2015 (Sputnik)
Multiple countries, especially China and Russia, pose a grave threat to US space security systems with advanced technologies they have developed that can disrup...
Scientists trial system to improve safety at sea
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
A space scientist at the University of Leicester, in collaboration with the New Zealand Defence Technology Agency and DMC International Imaging, has been triall...
L-3 Communications continues support work for NSA
Feb 02, 2015 (UPI)
Systems engineering, acquisition planning and other services will continue to be provided the U.S. National Security Agency by a unit of L-3 Communications. The...
Japan Successfully Launches New Spy Satellite
Feb 01, 2015 (Sputnik)
Japan successfully completed the launch of a radar reconnaissance satellite on Sunday morning, the Kyodo news agency reports. The launch was performed from the ...
Germany joins Space Situational Awareness program
Jan 30, 2015 (UPI)
Germany is to receive space situational information and services from the U.S. Air Force under an agreement signed recently with the U.S. Strategic Command. The...
BAE Systems tapped to train intel agency analysts
Jan 29, 2015 (UPI)
BAE Systems reports it is to provide mission essential training and instruction support to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency personnel. Those who receive ...
US Navy uses Russian rocket engines to launch comsat
Jan 22, 2015 (Sputnik)
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched an Atlas V rocket, carrying the US Navy's heaviest national security payload on Tuesday evening, accordin...
EU Forced to Oppose Russian Resolution on Arms Ban in Space
Jan 22, 2015 (Sputnik)
European Union countries were under pressure during the December voting on Russia's draft resolution "No first placement of weapons in outer space" (NFP), the h...
Russia to Merge Air, Space Forces in 2015
Jan 14, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russia will create an Air-Space Force from the merger of its Air Force and Space Forces in 2015, the country's Armed Forces General Staff chief, Valery Gerasimo...
U.S. intel agency contracts for BAE Systems software
Jan 13, 2015 (UPI)
BAE Systems' commercial GXP Xplorer software is to be used to modernize the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's data stores and libraries. The management ...
USAF awards support contract for space launch and test sites
Jan 12, 2015 (UPI)
A joint venture company of Raytheon and General Dynamics is to operate, maintain and sustain U.S. Air Force launch and test ranges in Florida and California. Th...
China Launches Yaogan-26 Remote Sensing Satellite
Dec 29, 2014 (Sputnik)
The Chinese launched Yaogan Weixing series satellite on Saturday. The launch of Yaogan Weixing-26 took place at 03:22 UTC using a Long March-4B launch rocket fr...
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