Satellites
Are Spy Satellites Really Worth the Millions?
In today’s pop-culture-driven world, most people tend to think the American Defense and Intelligence apparatus has spy satellites silently monitoring every square inch of the globe, collecting data from on...
Can a New Satellite Network Track Hypersonic Missiles During Flight?
If a hypersonic missile were traveling along the upper boundary of the earth’s atmosphere at five times the speed of sound, how could defenders track it from a dispersed geographic...
Why Smaller Countries Must Invest in Independent Satellite Capabilities
Contrary to popular perceptions, Ukraine has fared quite well in its war against Russia. The government in Kyiv is still standing, and Russian forces have been unable to push forward...
Commercial Satellites Show Russian Stealth Fighters
These days, it appears that anyone with reliable internet access can tap into commercial radar satellites to do their own version of airbase monitoring. According to H. I. Sutton at...
This Top-Secret Drone Fell Into Soviet Hands And Changed Reconnaissance Forever
Here’s What You Need To Remember: Satellites don’t crash-land and have their secrets recovered by the enemy, as happened to the D-21. In November 1969, the U.S. Air Force sent Russia an...
Exposed: U.S. Air Force’s War to Destroy America’s Space Industry
The U.S. Air Force appears to have formulated the perfect plan for wrecking the already struggling domestic space launch business. Take a sector that has struggled for years with too...
Next-Generation GPS is Key to Securing America’s Future
Reflecting on the past and looking toward the future in the movie, Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner built a baseball field on the premise that, “If you build it, they will...