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The Space Force is giving a nearly even share of 21 upcoming national security launches between SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.

The Space Force is giving a nearly even share of 21 upcoming national security launches between SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.

The planned launches, which will take place starting in FY26, include sending a second SILENTBARKER watchdog satellite jointly developed by the service and the National Reconnaissance Office to geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO).  

The Space Force is giving a nearly even share of 21 upcoming national security launches between SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.

U.S. defense and space agencies are working toward the world’s first in-orbit demo of a nuclear thermal rocket. It will support commercial activit on the moon.

IAEA Opens Initiative to Enhance Fusion Energy Collaboration

With nuclear technology set to underpin new developments in space travel, NASA has awarded Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation a contract to manufacture and test fuel and develop the design of a nuclear thermal propulsion engine for near-term missions. Separately, Space Nuclear Power Corporation has partnered with Lockheed Martin Corporation and BWX Technologies for the US Space Force/Air Force's JETSON nuclear electric propulsion demonstration project, while Framatome has announced the creation ...

The Space Force sees nuclear fission reactors as a solution to replace solar panels for operations in the darkness of deep space.

A lack of military involvement will slow U.S. progress in the race to the moon and place at risk national security, scientific and economic interests.

A lack of military involvement will slow U.S. progress in the race to the moon and place at risk national security, scientific and economic interests.