As the events of May 1 unfolded in a compound north of Islamabad, Pakistan, President Obama and his national security advisors watched them in real time in the White House …
Countdown procedures are well under way for the launch of a first-of-its kind spacecraft that will utilize sophisticated scanning and staring sensors to provide significantly improved capabilities for tomorrow’s warfighters. …
The goal of the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) is to develop leaders of character. For cadets in the academy’s Department of Astronautics, those leadership skills are employed before they …
The U.S. Air Force Academy’s Department of Astronautics has proven once again that it is indeed providing cadets the opportunity to “learn space by doing space.”
FalconSAT, the academy’s capstone …
One of the tools desired by even the earliest space visionaries, dating back to 1930s Nazi Germany, has been an orbital spaceplane capable of rapid launch preparation, good orbital and …
The United States has the distinction of being the first country to use space for military purposes, launching both photoreconnaissance (CORONA) and electronic surveillance (GRAB/TATTLETALE) satellites into low Earth orbit …
The scene is a politically unstable, strategically important country where terrorists are hiding in a large cave system. In addition to using traditional guns and bombs, both the terrorists and …
Congratulations to Craig Covault, who won the 2009 Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award for Space. Covault received the award at a dinner held during the opening festivities of the …
