Optical cross-link technology is maturing at a critical juncture, with government and commercial customers pouring billions into proliferated constellations.
The NROL-57 mission was launched March 21 at 2:49 a.m. EDT, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg SFB, California.
On the cover of the March 24, 1958 issue, is the North American XSM-64 Navaho supersonic intercontinental guided missile, photographed on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Isar Aerospace is targeting March 24 for the inaugural mission of its Spectrum rocket in what would be a milestone as the first orbit launch from European soil.
The U.S. Justice Department is charging founder Erlend Olson, John Gallagher, Stephen Buscher, Joseph Fargnoli and Jamil Swati with a multiyear scheme.
The U.S. is fielding proliferated space architectures to support missile warning and missile tracking, surveillance and reconnaissance, and secure comms.
OHB is seeing new opportunities in military space and expects sales to rise around 50% by 2027 from last year to hit around €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion).
Success was all the sweeter when Firefly, with its debut spacecraft, not only landed on the Moon, but operated for more than 14 days on the lunar surface.
NASA says it wants to stick with the Boeing CST-100 Starliner to give the space agency options in case the SpaceX Dragon system were to encounter problems.
ROTI II long-range photo of a 62 ft. Thor firing when taken missile was at an 18 mi. altitude and 35 mi. slant range from tracking telescope. Lens used has a 500 in. focal length. Link diamond exhaust shock pattern is expanded due to decreased atmospheric pressure at altitude; length of flame is approximately 130 ft.
