MILITARY SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Russia Reveals Details About Its First 'Predator' Satellite

Mar 28, 2019 (Sputnik)

State-funded firm Russian Space Systems has presented the concept and characteristics of their latest development - a satellite capable of devouring the remains...

Modi declares India 'space superpower' as satellite downed by missile

Mar 28, 2019 (AFP)

In a rare address to the nation on Wednesday, just weeks before a national election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India had joined the United States, Russi...

Trump nominates Air Force general to lead US Space Command

Mar 27, 2019 (Sputnik)

"I'm proud to share with all of you that the president has announced his nominee to lead the new unified combatant command, the United States Space Command", Pe...

Air Force Gen. John Raymond nominated to lead U.S. Space Command

Mar 27, 2019 (UPI)

Raymond is currently commander of the Air Force Space Command at Peterson AFB, Colo., and is also the Joint Force Space Component commander, directing the U.S. ...

India to Launch Military Satellite to Detect Enemy Radars, Sensors and Devices

Mar 26, 2019 (Sputnik)

This will be the 47th mission of ISRO's C45 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The launch is also aimed at demonstrating the PSLV's capability to place sate...

Shanahan: Space Force needed to ensure 'margin of dominance'

Mar 21, 2019 (UPI)

The Space Force is needed to maintain the edge the United States has over its closest competitors in space technology and capability, Shanahan said.. The issue ...

US turning space into new battlefield, justifies its supremacy bid claims Beijing

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

"In fact, they [the United States] are just trying to find a pretext [to justify] its aspirations to establish unilateral military supremacy and to carry out re...

US accuses Russia, China of undermining space peace push

Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)

The closed-door negotiations in Geneva involving experts from 25 governments -- including the US, China and Russia -- are aimed at laying the groundwork for a l...

A Mission for the Space Force

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

The growing congestion in low orbits and adversarial challenges in low and high orbits may well inevitably lead to a major paradigm shift in space-based nationa...

Trump calls for 'Space Force', nations talk space peace

Mar 17, 2019 (AFP)

Last month, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that the global disarmament architecture was "collapsing," citing various diplomatic failures, including Washington...

Pentagon establishing new agency to oversee US military space technology development

Mar 15, 2019 (Sputnik)

"Continuing actions by our near-peer competitors, China and Russia, suggest that they will attempt to deny, degrade or destroy US space capabilities, and are de...

US should verify Chinese lunar activity not military related says US official

Mar 13, 2019 (Sputnik)

"If the Chinese are in fact putting a military base on the moon, I'm sure they wouldn't admit it... They certainly have the technological prowess to do this and...

Russia's geopolitical rivals preparing for high-tech wars in space

Mar 05, 2019 (Sputnik)

Russia's geopolitical rivals are preparing to wage wars against a "high-tech adversary", using high-precision air- and space-based weapons and actively conducti...

DARPA Modernizes Small Business Innovation Research Program

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

To keep pace with discovery in science and technology worldwide, DARPA now intends to release SBIR/STTR opportunities on an out-of-cycle basis, separate from th...

Millennium Engineering awarded $340M for Space Vehicles Directorate work

Mar 04, 2019 (UPI)

The company, headquartered in Arlington, Va., will provide research, engineering and technical management in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory Space ...

DHS launches Polar Scout Satellites using SpaceX Falcon 9

Mar 01, 2019 (SPX)

Named Yukon and Kodiak, the CubeSats, which are approximately the size of a shoebox, neatly squeezed into a 20-ft. payload stack with 62 other small satellites ...

Pentagon submits Space Force proposal to Congress

Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)

The move comes at the request of President Donald Trump, who has insisted that a separate branch of military is needed to focus on protecting satellites and tac...

US must accelerate deployment of space sensors to counter Russian threat

Feb 27, 2019 (Sputnik)

"We need to fundamentally relook at the way that we are maintaining our domain awareness," O'Shaughnessy, who also leads US Northern Command, told the Senate Ar...

Team Vandenberg Hosts Combined Space Operations Coalition Summit

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

The primary objective for the summit was to work with coalition partners to define and develop the way ahead to transition the Combined Space Operations Center ...

Air Force awards $739 million launch service contracts

Feb 22, 2019 (SPX)

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has been awarded a $297 million firm-fixed-price contract, for launch services to deliver AFSPC-44, NROL-85,...