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'US missile strike' hits Pakistan

At least five people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike on a tribal district in north-west Pakistan, security officials have said.

DHS robotic airport missile-patrol plan to be shelved

It appears that plans for patrolling robotic laser missile-muddler guardian aircraft above US airports have been shelved. The idea has been assessed as too expensive to be practical.

Obama not committed to missile shield, aide says

(CNN) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has made "no commitment" to plans for a missile defense program in eastern Europe, despite a report on the Polish president's Web site, an Obama adviser said Saturday.

Rocketdyne Acquires Spacecraft Component Firm

Canoga Park-based Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne said Tuesday that it has acquired ARDE, Inc., a manufacturer of high performance spacecraft and missile propulsion components. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne develops rocket engines for the space shuttle, the Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, missile defense, and other applications. ARDE is located in Carlstadt, New Jersey.

Tennis for Two: The World's First Video Game?

Was "Tennis for Two" really the world's first video game? It hardly matters. The distinction may belong to something called a "Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device" by Thomas Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann that used eight vacuum tubes to make a tiny glowing speck of light appear to fire, missile-like, at tiny line-like targets. Players could tweak knobs to adjust for missile trajectory and velocity.

Facing Obama, Iran Hedges on Talks

Iran tests a missile that its defense minister said has a range of 1,200 miles, meaning it could reach Israel.

Pietersen warns England may not return

UEFA will study reports on the missile-throwing incident involving Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard at Anfield on Wednesday night.

Russian spy infiltrated Estonian cyber-security

Link: Russian spy in Nato could have passed on missile defence and cyber-war secrets - Times Online .

'US strikes' on Pakistan villages

More than 20 people have been killed in two suspected US missile attacks in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, security officials said.

'US strike' on Pakistani village

More than 20 people have been killed in two suspected US missile attacks in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, security officials said.

US Kills Al Qaeda Mastermind of Airline Liquid Bomb Plot

In what would be another major blow to al Qaeda, a CIA missile strike reportedly killed the long-sought British al Qaeda figure believed to have coordinated and planned the 2006 plot to use liquid bombs to blow up eight aircraft bound for the United States and Canada.

Astrophysicist Salpeter dies at 83

Eminent astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter, a seminal figure in theoretical physics whose research encompassed black holes and missile defense systems, died Nov. 25 of leukemia at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 83.

Holloman, WSMR and NASA conduct shuttle emergency landing exercise

Emergency fire teams respond to a simulated shuttle landing. Approximately 60 members from Holloman, White Sands Missile Range and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) came together for a shuttle emergency landing exercise at the White Sands Space Harbor, Oct. 30. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Rachel A. Kocin)

In N. Dakota, nuclear past eclipses todays harbingers

COOPERSTOWN, N.D. -- In a time of uncertainty, upheaval and catastrophic risk, there’s nothing like a missile silo.

Retromodo: Tennis for Two, the World's First Graphical Videogame

In 1958, Dr. William Higinbotham was working at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on a simulation of bouncing balls and missile trajectories that could predict the paths objects could take. Suddenly, it hit him: why not apply this to tennis? He created Tennis for Two, which depending on your definition could be considered the world's first videogame, in October of that year. Video after the jump.

Orbital Sciences and ATK Announce Successful Launch of IBEX Spacecraft on the Pegasus XL Rocket

Minneapolis -- Alliant Techsystems (ATK) supported the successful launch of an Orbital Sciences Corporation air-launched Pegasus XL vehicle from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The Pegasus was carrying the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft into space.

Putin to hold phone-in

During Mr Putin's presidency, the phone-in became a national tradition where he answered dozens of questions from ordinary Russians on everything from missile tensions with the West to the most local issues in the provinces. --PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

China Builds World's Biggest Fixed Spectrometer Telescope

Chinese researchers' long dream of building a facility better but still relying on the technology used on a national scale for astronomical search purposes has finally come true. Housed in a building that looks like a nuclear missile silo and a messed up PI symbol lies their latest achievement, the Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). It was developed on a 235 million yuan ($34.4 million) budget. The best Chinese telescope constructors have joined their efforts to design the facility.

US Air Force Increases Investment in Satellite Protection Technology

What does the US, Russia and China have in common? Yes, they've all sent a man into space and successfully carried out spacewalks using home-made spaceships, but they have another space-based attribute in common. They are all capable of shooting down satellites in Earth orbit. What's more, all have proven it. So, we know for a fact that the technology is out there, and although it is still an extremely hard task, satellites are becoming more and more vulnerable to attack from the ground. Experts now believe that anti-satellite technology is within reach of rogue states and some well-funded terrorist groups, using nothing more than a medium range missile, a college-level team of individuals and some crude, yet effective, technology.

Shields up! How nanotechnology can protect satellites from energy weapons

(Nanowerk Spotlight) When the U.S. military talks about space superiority it defines this as the "degree of control necessary to employ, maneuver, and engage space forces while denying the same capability to an adversary". Although 'space forces' has a Star Wars ring to it, the term basically refers to satellites and these satellites – at least as far as unclassified information goes – do not carry weapons (yet); although the public website of the U.S. Air Force Space Command in listing its capabilities mentions the ability to "conduct defensive and offensive counterspace operations, and space environment assessments". The main functions of the military's space capabilities today are information related – weather, communications, surveillance, reconnaissance, navigation and missile warning capabilities – and has become critical to

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