US Air Force launches a GPS satellite
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The US Air Force launched a global positioning system satellite Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Fla. It was the 12th successful launch of the new-generation GPS IIR spacecraft.
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The Air Force is scheduled to launch a new Delta 4 rocket on Saturday in a test that will help determine whether it can become a vehicle to carry billion-dollar military satellites.
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GPS, once a fabulously expensive tool for the military, has dropped in price enough to become part of everyday life. Businesses are moving in to offer satellite tracking of everything from school buses to errant spouses, selling security but also raising privacy concerns. -The Washington Post
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The military shows its love for unmanned aerial vehicles.
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By Laurent Marot KOUROU, French Guiana  - A European Ariane rocketlaunched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, thethird in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky"independent of the United States.
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By CHARLES D. BRUNT Journal Staff Writer A new Department of Defense agency responsible for designing, deploying and operating satellites that help troops on the ground win battles officially set up shop Monday at Kirtland Air Force Base.
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The U.S. Air Force said on Monday it planned to stick with a single contractor for all three satellite batches to be bought for an enhanced Global Positioning System navigation tool known as GPS III.
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During the next week, a wayward U.S. spy satellite will make passes across North America and western Europe soon after sunset and should be easily visible to the unaided eye.
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The Pentagon no longer needs to  hamper the entire Global Positioning System when facing a  threat in one part of the world and will stop buying satellites  that enable it do so, the military said on Tuesday.
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A European Ariane rocket launched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, the third in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky" independent of the United States.
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The U.S. Air Force quietly has put  into service a new weapon designed to jam enemy satellite  communications, a significant step toward U.S. control of  space.
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An Atlas 5 rocket launched spaceward late Thursday, hauling a clutch of six military research satellites into orbit for the U.S. Air Force.
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Federal Aviation Administration's high tech system will use GPS and satellite signals to let more aircraft take to the sky more safely.
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A Boeing Co. Delta 2 rocket successfully launched a new U.S. Air Force Global Positioning Satellite into orbit from Florida Saturday.
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Tucked into the Bush administration's space policy is a plan to take the global positioning system offline temporarily during a national emergency. The goal: preventing terrorists from using the navigational technology.
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MOSCOW. June 8 (Interfax-AVN) - A military satellite of the Cosmos series has been placed into its designated orbit after being launched from the Plesetsk launch pad in the Arkhangelsk region on Thursday, Space Forces spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin told Interfax- AVN.
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A US warship is moving into position to try to shoot down an out-of-control US spy satellite as early as Wednesday before it tumbles into the Earth's atmosphere, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.