Tennessee has launched a bid to host the planned United States Space Academy, proposing a campus at the Coffee County Joint Industrial Park near Tullahoma, minutes from Arnold Air Force Base and about 60 miles (97 km) from Huntsville, Alabama. Gov. Bill Lee announced the bid on Oct. 28 alongside U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and […]

The UK Ministry of Defence has hired Astroscale UK as prime contractor for LEDA, a new £15 million (about $20 million) military space program under which the company will build, launch and operate a spacecraft to study how satellites maneuvering close to other spacecraft could be used in orbital warfare, and how to counter them. […]

Two satellites from Russia’s Rassvet broadband constellation, the country’s answer to SpaceX’s Starlink, are expected to fall back into the atmosphere and burn up within the next day or two after failing to raise their orbits, Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell said, while most of the other Rassvet-3 satellites have now settled into […]

Ukraine has rejected Elon Musk’s claim that its military broke Starlink’s terms of service by using the civilian satellite network for offensive drone strikes, with a presidential adviser saying that restrictions SpaceX placed on the service in February make such use physically impossible. Musk made the accusation on X on Oct. 24, the same day […]

The U.S. Air Force has sent military-style cargo into space and back aboard a SpaceX Starfall capsule as it tests whether rockets could one day deliver supplies to troops anywhere on Earth within hours. The Air Force Research Laboratory flew its own cargo pods inside the capsule on a commercial rideshare launch from Cape Canaveral […]

The Pentagon’s top research agency wants a nuclear reactor that can run itself, and it has hired the team that built America’s last space reactor to prove it can be done. DARPA has awarded Space Nuclear Power Corporation, a small Los Alamos, New Mexico, company known as SpaceNukes, an agreement to build a Kilopower reactor […]

A Russian military satellite has maneuvered to within about 5 km (3 miles) of a commercial radar imaging satellite owned by ICEYE and appears to be holding position there, in what independent tracker Jonathan McDowell said may be the first rendezvous in low Earth orbit between two active satellites without the consent of one of […]