by Dan Day | Jun 10, 2014 | Monitor
On June 5, Gwynne Shotwell, president and COO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) spoke at the Atlantic Council on the current problems facing the U.S. aerospace industry and how SpaceX is working to restore American primacy in space launch technology. Since...
by Robert Beckhusen | Dec 11, 2012 | Monitor
The North American Aerospace Defense Command — which oversees the U.S.’s air defense – is now saying North Korea appears to have successfully sent an ‘object’ into orbit after its latest rocket launch.
by David Axe | Sep 25, 2012 | Monitor
Successive images of Aleppo show increasing war damage. Photo: AAAS Three successive overhead snapshots by orbiting civilian satellites provide the best, unclassified, big-picture view to date of the more than two-month-old battle for one of Syria’s key cities....
by Robert Beckhusen | Sep 6, 2012 | Monitor
The raised and cratered village of ‘Amara, Sudan, photographed by satellite in November 2011. Photo: Satellite Sentinel Project Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has issues with satellites. It’s not that he would mind some of his own, if Sudan suddenly...
by David Axe | Sep 4, 2012 | Monitor
A National Reconnaissance Office rocket carrying a classified satellite launches from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base in April. Photo: NRO The U.S. has a vast constellation of spy satellites in orbit. But these surveillance spacecraft have traditionally...
