The National Reconnaissance Office's sixth and final mission of 2020 launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Dec. 19. (SpaceX) By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 4 May 2020 WASHINGTON: For the first time, Space Command is working with the operator and builder of America’s spy satellites, the
The one-megawatt TEM as proposed in 2010. By Bart Hendrickx, Published by The Space Review, 7 October 2019 There is strong evidence from publicly available sources that a Russian company called KB Arsenal is working on a new type of military satellite equipped with a nuclear power source. Called Ekipazh,
(3DSculptor/Getty Images) (Getty Images/iStockphoto) By Niall Firth, Published by MIT Technology Review, 26 June 2019 Satellites are so crucial that attacking them could be seen as an act of war. The bad news is, it may have already happened. In March, India became only the fourth country in the world—after
