The Next-Gen OPIR is part of a larger strategy to provide missile warning and tracking capabilities from space, with the Space Force also commissioning Northrop Grumman to constru ...

This is one of two satellites built by Lockheed Martin, designed to offer early missile-warning capabilities from ...

The Lockheed Martin-built satellite is the sixth and final SBIRS vehicle to launch to geosynchronous orbit, about 22,000 miles above Earth. It’s slated to lift off at 6:29 a.m. Aug. 4 from Cape ...

The NASA/NOAA Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument photographed the low-light emissions of an aurora in the night sky over western Canada on Nov. 5, 2023.