29 March 2018
The Secret Genesis of Area 51
...until 1979, when the CIA turned Area 51 over to the Air Force, that the public knew that the former U-2 test facility was... wondered what had occurred” between the U-2s leaving and the Air Force taking over. This led to the plethora of speculation and ...
20 January 2020
SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft
.... Obviously, I’m super fired up. This is great.” Teams of personnel from SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force 45th Operations Group's Detachment-3 out of Patrick Air Force Base will recover the spacecraft for return to SpaceX facilities in Florida and begin...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... and economic fates of all terrestrial governments.” US Air Force personnel at Cape Canaveral supervise the launch of a... and adaptations, much like coastal defences against naval forces and intrusions”. Application of a coastal seapower model ...
February 2021
Cyber and Space – the role of the cyber-range
... of Space Policy & Law. He previously served in the Royal Air Force, where he was an operational pilot and commanded both 12 Squadron and ...RAF Lossiemouth. He was Director of the Air Staff in MoD (2007-2010) with Space and Cyber ...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... Jianbing 16. Yaogan 30 triplet of satellites. About the author Henk Smid is a retired chief officer of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, space analyst and author of numerous space related articles (https://smid.one). He has been an advisor to several...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
...have been important milestones in the life of any vehicle designed for air travel. After all, it's one thing to design an aircraft ...July 2020 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It is expected to reach Mars in ...
