With the Defense Department moving to put more satellites into orbit this year, the stakes are rising for two space launch companies with millions invested in north Alabama. One of them, United Launch ...

SEOUL--North Korea claimed Wednesday to have successfully placed a spy satellite into orbit with its third launch attempt this year, demonstrating the nation's determination to build a space-based ...

After two launch failures earlier this year, North Korea said it successfully placed its Malligyong-1 spy satellite into orbit last week. South Korea confirmed that the satellite entered orbit ...

Equally, the Soviets wanted to spy on the United States but strived ... The Soviet Union immediately announced that it too would launch a satellite. In a top-secret report, Eisenhower's Science ...

sending classified spy satellites into orbit for the United States National Reconnaissance Office. The mission was SpaceX’s second launch of the day, following an earlier Starlink mission.

North Korea launched a rocket carrying its first military satellite on Wednesday, but then malfunctioned and crashed into the sea. The launch triggered sirens in South Korea and Japan. Photo ...

SEOUL (dpa): North Korea is looking to expand its military surveillance capabilities to monitor the US from space and set to launch three more spy satellites next year, state media said on Sunday.

but the latest drills came after animosities on the Korean Peninsula rose over North Korea's recent failed spy satellite launch. The North's official Korean Central News Agency reported that the ...