NASA will accelerate missions featuring space nuclear power which marks a major milestone for robotic exploration, but is a controversial move among groups that oppose space nuclear power because of launch safety concerns.
U.S. intelligence agencies believe that China has successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon by destroying one of their old weather satellites. The test, if confirmed, would be an order of magnitude more provocative than earlier reports of Chinese blinding lasers being used against U.S. satellites.
Aviation Week & Space Technology surveys the high-powered U.S. spy satellite gear keeping watch over Iraq.