On June 7th, 2021 with 133 comments
The U.S. Air Force wants to invest $38 million next year in projects under the heading "Rocket Cargo." Ars Technica reports that Air Force is already spending...
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On March 13th, 2021 with 77 comments
Adrian Cho writes via Science Magazine: From 1966 to 1974, France blew up 41 nuclear weapons in above-ground tests in French Polynesia, the collection of 118...
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On December 20th, 2020 with 330 comments
An anonymous reader writes:
The U.S. military's Space Force branch celebrated its one-year anniversary Friday by announcing that its members would now be...
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On December 19th, 2020 with 132 comments
Slashdot reader destinyland writes: The U.S. Space Force celebrated its one-year anniversary Friday with a new announcement: that members of this branch of...
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On September 5th, 2020 with 31 comments
schwit1 shares a report from NASASpaceFlight: China launched a new experimental reusable space vehicle on Thursday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center...
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On July 8th, 2020 with 49 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Tiny, 3-D printed cubes of plastic, with intricate fractal voids built into them, have proven to be...
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On June 30th, 2020 with 113 comments
schwit1 writes: Same vaccine being tested in Canada. But China just skipped ahead and approved it for one year for its soldiers without full long-term data....
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On May 16th, 2020 with 218 comments
The Space Force, the newest military branch, now has an official flag. President Trump unveiled the flag at an Oval Office ceremony Friday where he also signed...
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On May 8th, 2020 with 240 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: As hospitals were overrun by coronavirus patients in other parts of the world, the Army Corps of Engineers...
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On May 3rd, 2020 with 167 comments
Syfy Wire's "Bad Astronomy" column is written by astronomer Phil Plait, head science writer of Bill Nye Saves the World. This week he looked at the...
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On March 29th, 2020 with 37 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Space News:
The space surveillance radar site known as the Space Fence is ready for use after five years in construction, the U.S....
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On March 27th, 2020 with 76 comments
schwit1 shares a report from UPI: The first official mission for the new U.S. Space Force lifted off from Florida at 4:18 p.m. EDT on Thursday into a...
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On March 25th, 2020 with 9 comments
On Tuesday, the Air Force's 45th Space Wing confirmed that the timing for SpaceX's upcoming SAOCOM launch, which was set to take off from Vandenberg Air Force...
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On March 15th, 2020 with 75 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the New York Times:
Why were two apparently unexploded bombs sticking out of a lava tube on Hawaii's Mauna Loa? That's what Kawika...
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On February 2nd, 2020 with 123 comments
"A Russian satellite has positioned itself uncomfortably close to an American spy satellite in orbit around Earth..." reports the Verge, adding that the...
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On December 22nd, 2019 with 161 comments
"Retired Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast says fantastic technology exists that could transport a human anywhere on earth within an hour," reports The Drive, in an...
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On December 21st, 2019 with 249 comments
The BBC reports:
President Donald Trump has officially funded a Pentagon force focused on warfare in space -- the U.S. Space Force.
The new military...
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On December 15th, 2019 with 27 comments
America's Air Force is seeking proposals for technologies "for operations far beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit, near the moon's orbit," reports SpaceNews:
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On December 14th, 2019 with 55 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike quotes Defense News:
The U.S. Air Force's top civilian and a key member of Congress agreed Saturday on the need to...
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On October 27th, 2019 with 39 comments
"An unpiloted Air Force X-37B spaceplane, one of two winged orbiters used to carry out classified research, made a surprise landing at the Kennedy Space Center...
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On September 1st, 2019 with 50 comments
"An Air Force X-37B spaceplane just completed its 718th day in orbit, making it the longest mission yet for a secretive military test program," reports CNN:
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On August 30th, 2019 with 190 comments
President Donald Trump announced Thursday the official establishment of the U.S. military's Space Command. CNN reports: Space Command will become the 11th...
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On July 26th, 2019 with 184 comments
France announced plans on Thursday to develop satellites armed with laser weapons that will be used against enemy satellites that threaten the country's space...
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On June 13th, 2019 with 53 comments
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A constellation of eight microsatellites has harvested data that -- if folded into the National Oceanic and...
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On June 6th, 2019 with 86 comments
"In recent years, The New York Times has been publishing obituaries of people long dead but who nevertheless would have been deserving of one when they died,"...
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On April 3rd, 2019 with 217 comments
When India blew apart one of its satellites orbiting Earth last week, it created hundreds of pieces of orbital debris, and some of those pieces are large...
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On March 31st, 2019 with 85 comments
Reuters reports:
India expects space debris from its anti-satellite weapons launch to burn out in less than 45 days, its top defense scientist said on...
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On December 21st, 2018 with 58 comments
Privately funded space startups are changing China's space industry, helping it become a space power on par with the United States. "2018 is shaping up to be...
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On October 11th, 2018 with 107 comments
The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday awarded funds to three rocket companies to help them complete development of their boosters. The three winners include:
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On July 13th, 2018 with 194 comments
hackingbear shares a report from Popular Science: China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), China's foremost military electronics company,...
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