Reusable launch vehicles — such as SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s New Glenn, Stoke Space’s Nova, Rocket Lab’s Neutron ...

Aerospace and defense technology company Inversion has developed Arc, a space-based delivery vehicle. Inversion says the Arc vehicles will be pre-positioned in low-earth orbit, ready for use. When ...

Space Aircraft Carrier? Key Points and Summary - SpaceWERX has tapped Seattle startup Gravitics to develop an “orbital carrier”—a pre-positioned, in-space launch pad that can rapidly deploy small ...

The Space Force rarely discusses the X-37B—but it can rapidly change orbits, deploy payloads, or conduct on-orbit servicing, giving it clear intelligence or counter-space value. The Boeing X-37B is a ...

After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into ...

The company said Thursday the ESS program is the space-based component of the U.S. nuclear command, control and communications, or NC3, architecture and is designed to deliver secure strategic satcom ...

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