America finds itself in Space Race 2.0 as humanity grows ever more dependent on the advanced technology in orbit and the lines between civil operations and national security are increasingly blurred. Threat Status at The Washington Times delivers in-depth and exclusive coverage as the great power competition for dominance accelerates across the 21st Century Frontier, with China, Russia and others challenging the United States as the world leader in the futuristic domain.
The Threat Status team was given an exclusive tour during OPERATION Huntsville. Follow Defense Tech Reporter John T. Seward as he gets the inside scoop from curator and space historian Ed Stewart.
NASA is throwing extra support and money behind Boeing’s troubled astronaut capsule to get it fixed and flying again as soon as possible.
The U.S. must be ready to fight and win 21st-century battles on or around the moon, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a major speech Wednesday, as the once-futuristic idea of warfare in space edges closer to reality.
National Security Editor Guy Taylor sits down with Dan Caughran, Senior Vice President of Production Operations, and Gary Wentz, Vice President of Atlas and Vulcan Programs, for a rare look at how the Vulcan Centaur rocket comes together. This project was made in partnership with ULA.
Andrei Samuilovski, 32, a citizen of Estonia, Switzerland, and Russia, pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally export U.S.-origin aviation and aerospace parts to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions, according to court documents.
The U.S. is developing advanced space weapons and rapidly building the Golden Dome missile shield, key Pentagon officials said Monday, even as military leaders announced new steps to protect American airpower assets from low-cost drone and missile attacks by Iran or other adversaries.
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink revealed Monday that the U.S. military now has an “on-orbit” space weapon.
As AFA’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference kicks off, retired Lt. Gen. Burt Field — president and CEO of the Air and Space Forces Association — joins Guy Taylor of Threat Status to break down the organization’s 80-year mission.
The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are stepping away from spaceflight.
The U.S. faces a “severe” shortage of qualified engineers and technicians needed to rebuild or replace satellites targeted by China or Russia in a theoretical 21st-century war in space, according to a major new report from the Rand Corp.
Honeywell Aerospace Inc. has agreed to pay $2,042,518 to resolve allegations that it is liable under the False Claims Act for failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Justice Department announced.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday at 7:26 a.m. EDT aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, beginning a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, according to NASA.
Russian satellites are failing to reach the required altitudes to create its own version of SpaceX’s Starlink system, the Institute for the Study of War said this week.
NASA’s newest crown jewel blasted off Sunday to hunt for planets around other stars, explore secret dark energy and survey the cosmos like never before.
Lt. Gen. John Rafferty, the commander of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, joins the show from the recent Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Wednesday suggested relocating data centers to Earth orbit, framing the move as a way to sidestep growing public anger over the facilities’ environmental and economic toll in American communities.
SpaceX plans to spend $100 billion on a massive new Louisiana spaceport capable of supporting thousands of rocket launches a year — but not everyone is convinced the state is moving at the right pace.
Suppose China were to reach Mars with a manned mission before the United States.
Elon Musk’s space company plans to spend $100 billion to build a massive new spaceport in Louisiana to launch rockets, state officials and the company announced Tuesday.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot conducted a spacewalk outside the ISS on Tuesday to complete repairs on a critical communications antenna.
China said on Sunday it was postponing its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission, which was set to carry out explorations including searching for water ice on the moon.
The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year.
A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket.
At the 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. and current Booz Allen executive adviser Trey Obering and Booz Allen Senior Vice President Michael Davenport join Threat Status to explain the “secret sauce” of missile defense today: integrating systems, networks, and decision tools across the force.
At the 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, Rep. Dale Strong joins Washington Times Threat Status’ Jason Sickels to explain why any company in space or missile defense needs a presence in the Rocket City.
Lockheed Martin Space President Robert Lightfoot joins Guy Taylor of The Washington Times’ Threat Status at the 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.
China’s military is expanding an array of space warfare weapons that pose a major threat to American satellites and the military operations they support, a senior Space Force general said Wednesday.
SpaceX and Tesla are building a semiconductor manufacturing complex in Grimes County, Texas, that the companies say will become the largest building on Earth by floor area, more than 5 times the size of the current record-holder.
China ‘s launch of a rocket carrying a communications satellite on Monday evening was not successful, state media reported, adding that the cause of the failed launch was under investigation.
The future of space-based military operations, the need for quicker replenishment of munitions stockpiles, and President Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield are all in the spotlight as top Pentagon officials and defense contractors descend on a conference that opens here Tuesday.
Threat Status has partnered with Arlington-based Shield Capital portfolio company Obviant to take a deep dive into the critical line items in the 2027 NDAA during OPERATION Huntsville and the 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon’s fresh crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX rocket.
On July 31, an important article appeared in the Wall Street Journal: “From Lunar Landing to Lunar Land Rights: Establishing Property in Space Is Crucial to Unlocking Its Economic Potential.”
Leftover SpaceX rocket debris likely slammed into the moon this week, the latest sign of a “lunar litter” problem that could worsen as the U.S. and China race back to the moon.
A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers undoubtedly slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported.
NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility, giving the agency and its partners a critical new resource for testing the safety and performance of future aircraft, rockets and space exploration vehicles, the agency said in a July 31 press release.
Investors in Elon Musk’s space company get a chance to question him Tuesday after SpaceX issues its first quarterly earnings since going public.
The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of an aging and sinking NASA telescope has run into its own problem.
A U.S.-Russian space crew landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday after an eight-month stint on the International Space Station.
The Trump administration’s Golden Dome missile defense project is expanding its secretive network of space-based, missile-detecting satellites with a $1.75 billion dual contract for two defense technology companies, despite concerns on Capitol Hill about ballooning costs.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina reached the International Space Station on Tuesday after launching earlier in the day from Kazakhstan, increasing the station’s population to 10 crew members for roughly the next two weeks, according to the space agency.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman was attending a scheduled launch Tuesday of a U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station, a sign of the ongoing cooperation in orbit between Moscow and Washington despite tensions over Russia’s military action in Ukraine.
Japan’s experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday as the country seeks to achieve the technology key to cut launch costs and compete in the global space market dominated by SpaceX.
China successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch on Friday in a breakthrough for the country’s space program, state media said.