The US Air Force has awarded the United Launch Alliance (ULA) the “STP 3” contract to launch the STPSat 6 spacecraft on an Atlas V 551 rocket. The contract worth US$191.1 million was awarded after a competitive tendering competition with SpaceX. The...
Like schoolboys in a school yard boasting about their respective prowess or possessions, a war of words has broken out between the UK and Russian defence ministries on whose aircraft carrier is best. The UK Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon opened up last year in...
A Soyuz 2-1V launch vehicle successfully lofted a military satellite for Russia codenamed Cosmos 2519 (Kosmos 2519). The spacecraft is also believed to be named Napryazhenie 1 as it is thought to be the first satellite in a new series of geodetic/geodesy...
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force, successfully intercepted an intercontinental ballistic missile target during a test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the nation’s ballistic missile defense system on...
A Soyuz-2-1B rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia, at 0633 GMT on 25 May. The mission carried the second EKS spacecraft (Edinaya Kosmicheskaya Sistema – Unified Space System), these satellites provide Russia’s missile...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to build its new part-reusable experimental spaceplane (XS-1). Called the Phantom Express, it will act as a first stage carrying an expendable upper stage on top that is designed to deliver...
