The entire Florida National Guard was joined by Guard forces from at least seven other states as they began route clearance, search and rescue, and other missions before dawn Thursday after the fast-moving storm struck Wednesday night.
Friday saw a critical test of the Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. joint venture’s ability to loft spy satellites for the U.S. government. The Pentagon has been putting pressure on the company and levying fines over delays with Vulcan.
The first site is on the northwest coast of Australia, the second site is planned for Wales, and the final site will be in the U.S. The three nations will operate the arrays together, producing a “game-changing” radar system.
New Glenn rockets are more than twice as powerful than the Falcon 9. It’s the debut that could see Blue Origin compete alongside SpaceX and ULA for lucrative national security missions in the future.
Monarch Joint Venture, a nonprofit that supports butterfly populations, has been working with the Defense Department to monitor the insects at dozens of military installations in the U.S.
The U.S. Army captured bragging rights as the year’s top military Call of Duty team, defeating squads from the U.S., U.K. and Canadian armed services to win the glittering trophy at Call of Duty Endowment Bowl V.
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that if he is reelected to the White House, he will create a Space National Guard to support the newest military branch that he established under his previous term in office.
Col. Adam Fisher of the 310th Space Wing — an Air Reserve component of the Air Force — expects to be the unit’s last wing commander as hundreds of Air Force reservists focused on space missions are applying for active-duty service as the Space Force launches a new model.
Thousands of Amazon satellites will be prepped for launch at a new facility nearing completion at the Kennedy Space Center. Adjacent to that will be this 42,000-square-foot expansion, that will allow Amazon to process and store more satellites for a busy schedule of launches from nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
There’s about to be a new methane eye in the sky. SpaceX is scheduled to launch on Friday the Tanager-1 satellite. The nonprofit Carbon Mapper is behind the satellite and will make the data available once it’s operational in the coming months.