The missile that took down a disabled spy satellite last week almost certainly destroyed a tank filled with potentially harmful hydrazine fuel, the Pentagon said Monday. ...more

February 26, 2008

The unprecedented downing of an errant spy satellite by a Navy missile makes clear that the Pentagon has a new weapon in its arsenal: an antisatellite missile adapted from the nation's missile defense program. ...more

February 22, 2008

WASHINGTON - Debris from an obliterated U.S. spy satellite is being tracked over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans but appears to be too small to cause damage on Earth, a senior military officer said Thursday, just hours after a Navy missile scored a direct hit on the failing spacecraft. ...more

February 21, 2008

Capping a successful 13-day mission to the International Space Station, the crew of Atlantis glided home to a postcard touchdown at 9:07 a.m. Wednesday, setting the stage for another shuttle venture in less than three weeks. ...more

February 21, 2008

A missile launched from a Navy ship struck a dying U.S. spy satellite passing 130 miles over the Pacific on Wednesday, the Pentagon said. ...more

February 21, 2008

High seas in the north Pacific may force the Navy to wait another day before launching a heat-seeking missile on a mission to shoot down a wayward U.S. spy satellite, the Pentagon said Wednesday. ...more

February 20, 2008

A Navy ship in the Pacific Ocean will try an unprecedented shootdown of an out-of-control spy satellite loaded with a toxic fuel as it begins its plunge to Earth, national security officials said Thursday. ...more

February 15, 2008

The U.S. military is developing contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could hit North America. ...more

January 30, 2008

A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials said Saturday. ...more

January 27, 2008

By May 2002, the government's effort to build a technologically audacious new generation of spy satellites was foundering. ...more

November 11, 2007