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El Paso County Commissioner Longinos Gonzalez announced Wednesday he is getting into the race to replace Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers.

The launch pad used in the latest launch remains scarred from an explosion in August 2019 that even drew the attention of then-President Donald Trump.

Iran likely suffered another failed launch of a satellite-carrying rocket while attempting to reinvigorate a program criticized by the West, even as Tehran faces last-minute negotiations with world powers to save its tattered nuclear deal in Vienna.

The rockets origins are disputed, but many experts believe its from China.

The Pentagon doesn't believe Russia has fully unleashed its significant electronic warfare capabilities, a senior defense official said.

U.S. Space Command headquarters is coming to Huntsville. Right?

If the relocation goes forward as recommended by the Trump administration, the command would move to Huntsville by 2026.

There is one bright spot in the ongoing US-China space traffic brouhaha: Beijing has begun publishing for the first time the basic orbital positions of its crewed space station.

A Chinese satellite was seen grabbing another satellite and taking it out of its normal geosynchronous orbit before placing it into a "super-graveyard drift orbit." The move has raised [...]

"We invest in high-risk, high-payoff research to support some of the most difficult challenges to the IC," IARPA program manager Alexis Truitt told Breaking Defense. And debris is "one of the hardest challenges that is affecting satellites worldwide."