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

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

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 ...

The missile’s ability to avoid obstacles and adapt its flight path only makes this weapon more lethal than it already is—even ...

A new, relatively cheap precision-guided air-launched stand-off munition the U.S. Air Force is working on could be employed ...

Such defense systems are extremely costly” with “their effectiveness often being questionable,” one expert said.

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 ...

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