Cape Canaveral Air Force Station News

A satellite critical to tracking tropical storms and hurricanes that threaten Florida is back in operation after being knocked out by a micrometeorite strike.

In trying to sell the idea of building a new rocket pad in Central Florida, Frank DiBello doesn't make comparisons to "Star Wars," "Star Trek" or moon landings.

PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE -- Nina Armagno, who once served here as a squadron commander, today pinned on the star of a brigadier general and assumed command of the 45th Space Wing.

Three companies competing to fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station expect to increase their local activity in the second half of this year, executives said Tuesday.

The decades-long assignment started with covering the first space shuttle launch, Columbia, on April 12, 1981.

The Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope is South Africa's biggest science and engineering project and will contribute greatly to science in general.

A U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System satellite built by Boeing was successfully launched May 15.

Shown here is the integrated CST-100 crew capsule and Atlas V launcher scale model at NASA's Ames Research Center.

A Northrop Grumman-led team recently completed the third gate review of its first Modular Space Vehicle bus assembly, integration and test, marking completion of functional testing.

ATK propulsion and composite technologies supported the May 24 successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane has quietly passed the five-month mark on its latest secret mission in Earth orbit.

The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane has quietly passed the five-month mark on its latest secret mission in Earth orbit.

Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the fifth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite it is delivering to the U.S. Air Force to give warfighters greater access to fast, secure communications that help them complete their missions more safely and effectively.

The U.S. Air Force's fifth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite headed into space late May 24 aboard a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday to put a multi-use, broadband communications satellite into orbit for the US military.

An unmanned Delta IV rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday evening.

A Delta IV rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday night after a one-day delay to troubleshoot a technical problem.

Deb Huleatt is in the midst of a high-risk balancing act. She's leading an effort to reduce the time it takes to prep United Launch Alliance Atlas and Delta rockets for launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The historic NASA launch pad from where astronauts blasted off for the moon and space shuttles departed for Earth orbit is now in need of a new rocket to launch.

A funnel cloud was spotted over Merritt Island Tuesday afternoon, and forecasters at the National Weather Service in Melbourne say additional funnel formations are possible in Central Brevard.