The following is the July 9, 2025, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Report to Congress on SSN(X) Program .

President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from ...

Aside from the U.S. Air Force’s anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test in 1985 and the abandoned Star Wars program, treaties like the Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963), the Outer Space Treaty (1967), and ...

Colonel Brian L. Chatman is the Space Lauch Delta 45 installation commander and the Director of the Eastern Range at Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The first of two Environmental Impact Statements for SpaceX plans for Starship launch sites on the Space Coast was released last week, and it lays out the company’s plans to fly as many as ...

The United States Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane touched down to earth on Friday after spending 434 days in orbit conducting mysterious tests.

The United States Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane touched down to earth on Friday after spending 434 days in orbit conducting mysterious tests.

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is the U.S. Space Force's secretive, unmanned spaceplane, designed to test new technologies and push the boundaries of reusable spacecraft.

The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, to exercise the service’s ability to recover the spaceplane across multiple sites. (U.S. Space Force courtesy photo) ...

The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7, a secretive unmanned spaceplane, completed its seventh successful mission early Friday morning when it landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base ...

The US Space Force's secret space plane, the X-37B, shared an image from orbit for the first time. The reusable orbital test vehicle captured the image of Earth last year during its seventh mission.