The Pentagon for decades has treated launch as the central logistical problem of military space. Once a satellite reaches ...

The name Jumpseat was first revealed in a 1986 book by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the Soviet Union’s 1983 ...

A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

Launched between 1971 and 1987 primarily to collect intelligence data on foreign weapon testing, the last satellites in the JUMPSEAT family were withdrawn from service in 2006. A memorandum dated Dec.

In 2025, NASA planetary scientist Mark Matney published a study about the Star in Journal of the British Astronomical ...

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With $800 of off‐the‐shelf equipment and months' worth of patience, a team of U.S. computer scientists set out to find out ...

In a historic Christmas eve mission, ISRO's heaviest rocket, LVM3-M6, successfully placed a US communication satellite into orbit on Wednesday. The Bengaluru-headquartered space agency said the ...

When you check the weather on your phone or use navigation to find a new restaurant, you probably don't think about the satellites humming overhead that make it all possible. Yet these orbiting ...

Low-Earth orbit is more crowded—and fragile—than it looks. Satellites constantly weave past each other, burning fuel and ...

Satellites and spacecraft in the vast region between Earth and the moon and just beyond—called cislunar space—are crucial for ...

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...