Russia's co-orbital satellite tactics are redefining space deterrence and signaling a more aggressive phase in orbital ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

The proposal cuts heavily into the $25-billion space agency’s science division, home to missions that include JWST, the twin Voyager probes, the Hubble Space Telescope and a fleet of Mars rovers ...

Bateman told me that the very existence of the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for developing U.S. spy satellites, was classified until 1992.

Should a conflict escalate to orbital weapons, the most prized U.S. targets would be its spy satellites. These are similar to a Hubble telescope, but pointed downwards. There are usually two in ...

NRO officials still expect to require some large satellites with sharp-eyed optics—think of a Hubble Space Telescope pointed at Earth—to resolve the finest details of things like missile ...

Like Hubble, but facing Earth The KH-11 satellites convert light into electronic signals and can identify objects on Earth that are just three inches long.

Those 36 satellites will compose Hubble’s first “production constellation,” and they’ll enable connection with a Hubble satellite roughly two-three hours per day from anywhere in the world.

The early spy satellite cameras were cutting edge for the era, in both their makeup and the resolution of the pictures they took. Going back to those spy satellites in the CORONA program, each ...

South Korea's second military spy satellite lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 7, 2024. (South Korean Defense Ministry via AP) SEOUL, South Korea — South ...

SpaceX is now developing the 'Starshield,' the renowned spy satellite that is meant for the US Department of Defense (DoD) under a contract with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), according ...

These are large, expensive spacecraft based on the design of the Hubble Space Telescope. While in office, Donald Trump famously tweeted a classified image from one of these satellites in 2019 ...