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Any Conditions, All Resiliency An Interview With Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Inmarsat President of Government Services

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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 …

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Countdown Under way for SBIRS GEO-1

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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. …

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Cadets and instructors fabricate the FalconSAT-5 satellite

Cadets ‘Learn Space by Doing Space’ in USAFA FalconSAT Program

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 …

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FalconSAT launch gathering

A Real-world Teaching Tool in Orbit

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 …

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NASA imagery of the X-37 spaceplane reentering Earth's atmosphere. The X-37B is the realization of an enduring dream of space visionaries, and an important new capability for the U.S. Air Force. NASA image

X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Successful first flight for an important new capability

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 …

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The X-37B provides the Air Force with a capability it has been looking for since the X-20 Dyna-Soar was cancelled. U.S. Air Force photo

Space Access: New and Emerging U.S. Capabilities

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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 …

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Navigation Warfare As the value of GPS increases, so do attempts to jam the system

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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 …

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Photo courtesy of Craig Covault.

Craig Covault Wins 2009 Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award

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 …

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