The National Reconnaissance Office sent a second round of satellites designed for its distributed spy network into orbit ...

SpaceX launched a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government this evening (May 11) from California's foggy central coast. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force ...

When a classified film capsule from America's most powerful Cold War spy satellite plunged to the bottom of the Pacific, the U.S. government launched a desperate deep-sea recovery operation that had ...

A Falcon 9 rocket blasts off as the marine layer hovers over Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday evening. The rocket carried a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Credit: SpaceX photo A ...

At least four Russian military satellites changed their orbits to match that of a Finnish-American radar surveillance satellite in the last week, raising questions about Russia’s intentions amid an ...

From AI adoption and explainability to new commercial satellite contracts, Breaking Defense’s latest eBook brings together ...

May 15, 2026: Russia is now deploying and testing several unusual small satellites in LEO/Low Earth Orbit. With this Russia is deploying operational anti-satellite weapons with valuable American ...

The day after the U.S. and Israel began the current war with Iran, satellite company Planet Labs e-mailed a media release. “Sharing our first batch of areas impacted by airstrikes,” it read. Planet ...

Fresh satellite images have captured one of Russia's most active volcanoes melting snow from the inside out as volcanic heat continues to seep through the frozen landscape of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The director of Britain’s electronic surveillance agency warns that Russia is only getting more brazen as battlefield losses ...