"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to direct spacecraft exploration." Scientists at the California Institute ...

A national missile shield based on space-based interceptors scales poorly against salvo attacks, an analyst for a conservative-leaning think tank says. “The space-based part of this [concept], I ...

Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...

The Iron Dome boosts U.S. missile defense with $19.5 billion for interceptors, Aegis Ashore installations, space sensors, and ...

But the vision for Trump’s next-generation system, including space-based lasers ... would require laser beams effective over hundreds of kilometres. No such technology currently exists.

China is not the only country interested in building space-based solar power (SBSP) projects. US-based contractors such as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, the European Space Agency ...

Credit: Voyager Space Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — Voyager Space, a Denver-based space ...

Sierra Space, based in Colorado, is one of four companies selected for the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) program, aimed at bolstering the existing GPS satellite constellation with a ...

At a lecture held in October, Long Lehao, a renowned rocket scientist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, unveiled China's plan to construct a massive space-based solar power station.

But a higher-energy version of this phenomenon could use a ground- or space-based laser beam to push a lightsail on a spacecraft in a more directed way. With the beam providing a source of ...

China has been increasing its efforts to go toe-to-toe with Western countries in sectors such as satellite production and rocket launches to supplement the growing need for space-based imaging ...

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