The sight of a China-owned rocket in American airspace may have triggered memories of the spy balloon that appeared in the Midwest in 2023. The balloon had drifted east and entered US airspace ...

Rocket Lab's workhorse ... The NRO, responsible for the US array of spy satellites, traditionally keeps details under wraps concerning its spacecraft's missions and capabilities.

Experts say solid-fuel rockets are used to launch smaller spy satellite because they have weaker thrust force than similar-sized liquid-fuel rockets. They say the development of solid-fuel rockets ...

Japan’s H-2A rocket is set for its second-to-last mission on Thursday, Sept. 26, launching a secret spy satellite named IGS-Radar 8 from Tanegashima Space Center at 1:24 a.m. EDT (0524 GMT ...

The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space ... it can start competing for lucrative contracts to send military and spy satellites to space. Blue Origin, ULA, and SpaceX were selected by ...

SpaceX launched SpainSat NG-1 for secure government communications, marking the final flight of Falcon 9's booster B1073, ...

Last month, a H-2A rocket successfully placed a spy satellite into its planned orbit, and days later JAXA’s unmanned spacecraft SLIM made the world’s first “pinpoint” moon landing then ...