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View Comments Note: We've 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 Force's 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 Space Force Station's Launch Complex 41 at 1:37 p.m., just six minutes after the window opened. UL...

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 421 configuration rocket. The fifth and sixth SBIRS Geo launches will complete the Lockheed Martin-b...

SpaceX wraps up day of worldwide launches with Florida Starlink mission Emre Kelly, Florida Today Note: We've 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 night's back-to-back-to-back launches likely quelled those thoughts – at least temporarily. At Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket vault...

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OP-ED: A $1.7 trillion goof would have paid for Biden's infrastructure plan Will Bunch The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) A Ferrari is surely a wonderful sports car, but let's be honest: Most of us couldn't afford the day-to-day maintenance, let alone the sticker price, and these beautiful creatures are hard to drive on America's 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 general compared the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet — decades and hundreds of billions o...