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Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations at the U.S. Space Force, has unveiled three lines of effort that he believes are essential to the success of the service branch. He

The U.S. Space Systems Command has delivered one of two U.S.-hosted payloads in Japan as part of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System-Hosted Payload program. The two payloads will add to the five existing

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa signed a framework agreement to strengthen the two countries’ collaboration on space exploration. The pact centers on peaceful

Researchers at NASA have validated the existence of a planet orbiting another star using the Northrop Grumman-developed James Webb Space Telescope. The exoplanet marks NASA’s first such discovery made using the Webb

Col. Eric Felt, director of space architecture and integration at the U.S. Space Force, said investments in high-priority technologies and commercially available platforms are instrumental to maintaining the U.S. technological leadership in

The U.S. Space Force will launch its National Security Space Launch-67 mission using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on January 14 at 5:00 p.m. Scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center, the mission

NASA will grant $175,000 worth of funding to 14 initial-stage studies under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program as it continues to foster space technology developments that could support future missions.  The

The third spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series, dubbed GOES-18, officially became GOES West on Thursday following its transition into operational service. GOES West will

Space Systems Command has launched a small satellite onboard the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission to showcase the capability of space-based electro-optical/infrared weather systems to provide weather imagery data from low Earth orbit. The demonstration,

NASA and the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program have completed an experiment aimed at understanding the interior of an asteroid in hopes of supporting efforts to develop a potential defense against near-Earth