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4th May 2021 - 08:00 GMT | by Charles Portal in London RSS Skynet satellite. (Photo: UK MoD/Crown Copyright) Why has the space domain become so important and moved up the defence agenda? Fundamentally, modern warfare is increasingly reliant on satellite constellations for beyond line-of-sight communications, data links to unmanned systems, intelligence gathering and surveillance activities.  Moreover, many national agencies rely on these assets, thereby increasing the compl...

Gunsmoke-J experimental satellite, Army image WASHINGTON: The Army is negotiating with the Intelligence Community and Space Force about ensuring operational control of any future Army-built ISR payloads hosted on DoD, IC and/or commercial satellites, says Willie Nelson, the de facto head of Army space programs. “This is a watershed,” said Doug Loverro, former head of DoD space policy and a long-time player in space intelligence operations. “It represents the increased importance of tactic...

Four astronauts splash down at night for the first time since 1968 in SpaceX crew dragon Firstpost 1 hour ago The New York Times © Provided by Firstpost Four astronauts splash down at night for the first time since 1968 in SpaceX crew dragon In darkness, four astronauts splashed down early Sunday morning in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Florida. That marked a successful end of a mission for NASA led by a private company, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to take its astronauts t...

updated: May 02 2021, 05:50 ist Four astronauts are taking the red-eye home to Earth on Saturday. Saturday evening, a crew of four — three NASA astronauts and one from Japan’s space agency — will push off from the International Space Station in a capsule built by SpaceX. The astronauts will circle the planet a number of times over the hours that follow until they splash down early Sunday morning along Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast. NASA has not conducted a nighttime splash down like th...

Print this article Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond made the case Friday for the growing armed service as it faces a flat defense budget while in need of additional personnel and platforms to fend off Russian and Chinese threats in space. But some experts say the latest services cry of fiscal poverty is overblown. Hardly 18 months old, Space Force has just 5,200 "Guardians" and some 16,000 total personnel, including administratively assigned Air Force space professionals. While manag...

Crew-1, which launched to the space station in November, will head home in the capsule called Resilience.

Four astronauts are taking the red-eye home to Earth on Saturday. Saturday evening, a crew of four — three NASA astronauts and one from Japan’s space agency — will push off from the International Space Station in a capsule built by SpaceX. The astronauts will circle the planet a number of times over the hours that follow until they splash down early Sunday morning along Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast. NASA has not conducted a nighttime splash down like this since 1968, when Apollo 8, th...

Then-Defense Undersecretary Frank Kendall, left, the militarys chief weapons buyer, and Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, right, testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, on Russian-made rockets for military satellites. Two senior Republicans say they don’t want American tax dollars used to buy any more Russian rocket engines because the sales enrich the friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP Pho...

It’s imperative America preserve its space power advantage Matthew Donovan 2 hours ago U.S. airmen assigned to Travis Air Force Base, Calif., transition into the U.S. Space Force during a ceremony at the 621st Contingency Response Wing on Feb. 12, 2021. (Nicholas Pilch/U.S. Air Force) A few weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines released the 2021 edition of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s “Annual Threat Assessment” — a document that is...

By Lauren C. Williams Apr 27, 2021 U.S. Space Command is launching a dedicated joint cyber center for better integration with U.S. Cyber Command, said its commander Gen. James Dickinson. "We are standing up a joint cyber center within the command as we speak," the general testified during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing with the U.S. Strategic Command and Space Command to review the fiscal 2022 budget request and Future Years Defense program. "I also have, as a result of the command ...