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View Comments Note: Weve brought you a front-row seat to rocket launches from Florida since 1966. Journalism like our space coverage takes time and resources. Please consider a subscription. --- A nearly 200-foot Atlas V rocket soared from its Florida pad on Tuesday, taking the Space Forces newest satellite designed to detect ballistic missile launches back on Earth. Powered by one main engine and two strap-on solid rocket boosters, the United Launch Alliance rocket vaulted off Cape Canaveral ...

The fifth SBIRS missile warning satellite in thermal vacuum testing. (Photo: Lockheed Martin) The final pair of SBIRS satellites are ready for lift-off. United Launch Alliance (ULA) is making final preparations to launch the fifth and sixth geosynchronous Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellites for the US Space Force. ‘The launch is on track for May 17 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,’ ULA announced on 15 May. The mission will launch on an Atlas V ...

SpaceX wraps up day of worldwide launches with Florida Starlink mission Emre Kelly, Florida Today Note: Weve brought you a front-row seat to rocket launches from Florida since 1966. Journalism like our space coverage takes time and resources. Please consider a subscription to stay up-to-date on Florida space news and launches. --- If there were any doubts about the accelerating pace of modern spaceflight, Thursday nights back-to-back-to-back launches likely quelled those though...

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OP-ED: A $1.7 trillion goof would have paid for Bidens infrastructure plan Will Bunch The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) A Ferrari is surely a wonderful sports car, but lets be honest: Most of us couldnt afford the day-to-day maintenance, let alone the sticker price, and these beautiful creatures are hard to drive on Americas pothole-plagued streets, and a massive pain in the butt to repair when they break down. So you can imagine the raised eyebrows earlier this year when a top U.S. Air Force g...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 25, 2021 at 11:42 AM Lockheed Martin SHiELD concept. WASHINGTON: The Air Force Research Laboratory’s experimental high-powered laser for aircraft self-defense will be revolutionary — if it can be made to work, experts say. The first full-up flight test of the Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) is now slated for 2024, Jeff Heggemeier, AFRL program manager, told Breaking D yesterday in an email. Some ground testing will be undertaken bet...

NASA lands Perseverance rover on the Mars surface, carrying the first helicopter for another planet CNBC 2/18/2021 Michael Sheetz NASA successfully landed its fifth robotic rover on Mars on Thursday, with the U.S. space agency confirming that Perseverance touched down safely on the red planets surface. The rover is the most technologically advanced robot NASA has ever sent to Mars. The agency aims to spend nearly two years using it to explore the surface. Perseverance is also ...

If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. File photo of the third Falcon Heavy launch in June 2019. Credit: SpaceX/U.S. Air Force SpaceX plans two Falcon Heavy launches this year for the U.S. Space Force in July and October, and United Launch Alliance has four national security space missions on its 2021 ...

Greeces first upgraded F-16V Viper plane heads to U.S. for tests By (0) Greece has sent the first of its upgraded F-16V fighters, similar to the one pictured, to the United States for final testing. Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin/Flickr Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Greeces first F-16V fighter plane is on its way to Texas for final tests after upgrades, the Greek defense ministry announced. The Lockheed Martin-built plane, known as the Viper and one of 84 to be improved for the Hellenic air force, was d...

Japan Wants to Disperse More F-35s Across Its Home Islands The ministry has expressed a desire to purchase four more F-35A conventional takeoff and landing variants as well as two additional F-35B short takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) variants. Heres What You Need to Remember: Obtaining that many Lockheed Martin-built F-35 stealth fighters won’t come cheap—but the ministry has unveiled a record-setting budget request, which was for $52 billion, and is part of a push to maintain milit...