For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.

TOKYO — The United States has approved a $900 million missile sale to Japan, the third major arms purchase of its kind by the ...

President Trump on Monday night signed an executive order to create a next-generation missile defense shield, which the White House referred to as the “Iron Dome for America” after Israel’s ...

The order signals a significant expansion in U.S. missile defense goals, funding, and strategy. Trump directed the Pentagon to plan a multi-layer defense system against enemy ballistic ...

conducted the first successful intercept of a ballistic missile target from the island using the Aegis Guam System, which fired a land-based interceptor of the type that US Navy ships have used to ...