For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.

Space-based missile defenses are the Holy Grail of American national defense. President Donald J. Trump wants to build an Iron Dome missile defense system for the entire United States. That’s what the ...

Castelion's Series A funding round raised $100 million, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and including several other firms.

President Donald Trump wants to destroy missiles with "space-based interceptors," but the idea is unlikely to be realistic, ...

President Trump on Monday night signed an executive order to create a next-generation missile defense shield, which the White ...

The Ground-Based Midcourse Defence (GMD) system, widely regarded as the backbone of US missile defence, is designed to ...

Read about a new executive order that calls for the deployment of a next-gen missile defense shield to safeguard against ...

The executive order explicitly notes that the policy aims to achieve what was left unfinished by Reagan’s Strategic Defense ...

This new initiative expands upon decades of U.S. missile defense efforts, building on technologies from the Reagan-era ...

Trump's order establishing an Iron Dome for America includes a wider focus to defend the homeland from air and missile ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

The order’s most contentious element directs the Department of Defense to pursue space-based interceptors — weapons positioned in orbit to destroy incoming missiles. While proponents argue ...