U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution and Debris Observation (LARADO) instrument was successfully integrated and tested on the Space Test Program Satellite 7 (STPSat-7) spacecraft at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center,...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Naval Oceanography attended the DoD Space Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) Summit─hosted by Air Force Colonel Dennis Birchenough, Senior Materiel Leader for the Environmental Monitoring & Tactical ISR Delta, Space Systems Command─ held at The Aerospace Corporation near...

SAN DIEGO - Amphibious transport dock USS Portland (LPD 27) retrieved the Artemis I Orion spacecraft in coordination with multiple organizations including NASA, U.S. Space Command, fellow U.S. Navy ship Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8), Helicopter Sea Combat...

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - “Fights on” loudly echos across the battlespace kicking off exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Coalition 23-1 at the Distributed Mission Operations Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and distributed sites across four countries, during the first day of an...

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - The 705th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Distributed Mission Operations Center, executed exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Battle Management in a synthetic, joint combat environment, ensuring joint operational and tactical warfighter readiness in the U.S...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists launched the second Strontium Iodide Radiation Instrument (SIRI-2) instrument in December 2021 onboard Space Test Program (STP) Sat-6. SIRI-2, a gamma-ray spectrometer, will demonstrate the performance of europium-doped strontium iodide gamma...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - NASA and the U.S. Navy are preparing to head out to sea for the ninth in a series of tests to verify and validate procedures and hardware that will be used to recover the Orion spacecraft after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean following deep space exploration...

The Navy has established a Maritime Space Officer (MSO) designator, 187x and will be actively recruiting qualified officers to form a community of maritime space integration and planning professionals...

MONTEREY, Calif. - In honor of Month of the Military Child, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) hosted “Ask an Astronaut” giving the children of Monterey County service members an opportunity to pose questions to a panel of three former NASA astronauts, broadcast via live stream, Apr. 29...