Military Space Spacecraft, Weapons and Tech

The US Air Force will not use a Lockheed Martin-made hypersonic weapon for its Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon program. Other hypersonic research continues.

Israel launched the newest addition to its Ofek series of spy satellites early Wednesday (March 29), an advanced radar craft called Ofek 13.

The Space Force is laying the groundwork to place payloads in orbit with relatively little notice through its 'tactically responsive space' program.

Arkisys Inc. and its partners awarded $1.6 million contract by the U.S. Space Force for scalable spaceport.

The U.S. Department of Defense scrubbed a test launch of an undisclosed missile out of Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station earlier this month.

Space Force wing Space Launch Delta 45 has allocated three launch pads at the historic Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to four private companies.

The Chinese satellite TJS-3, which launched in 2018, has been inspecting other nations' spacecraft high above Earth in geostationary orbit.

The Department of Defense released an image taken from the cockpit of a U-2 spy plane of the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that floated over the United States earlier this month.

The object blasted out of the sky over the Yukon on Feb. 11 may have been an amateur radio pico balloon — specifically, a 33-inch-wide one called K9YO-15.

The three mysterious objects shot down recently by U.S. fighter jets were likely research or recreation objects lofted by private companies or academic institutions, President Joe Biden said.