XSS-11: The Air Force Research Laboratory plans to launch the XSS-11 microsatellite on April 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Minotaur launch vehicle. XSS-11 is an $80 million experimental ...

The U.S. Air Force is utilizing a small spacecraft to explore a range of future military applications such as in-space servicing and repair, as well as close-up inspection of satellites in support of ...

The US Air Force Research Laboratory’s space vehicles directorate has released images taken in orbit by its $82 million, 100kg (220lb) Experimental Satellite System (XSS)-11 microsatellite. The images ...

U.S. Strategic Command is interested in fielding operational satellites in the near future that would rendezvous with other spacecraft in low Earth orbit for surveillance purposes, according to the ...

An Air Force experimental rendezvous satellite is undergoing checkout after being launched into polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., on Apr. 11 by an Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket. Late last ...

Flight Is the First of Up To Four Minotaur Launch Vehicle Missions Planned in 2005 (Dulles, VA 12 April 2005) – Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced that it successfully launched the U.S ...

Orbiting Earth for sixmonths, the U.S. Air Force XSS-11 (Experimental Satellite System-11) hasachieved an early objective--to rendezvous with other space hardware. The small, low-costspacecraft was ...

An Air Force microsatellite successfully completed a series of orbital rendezvous maneuvers with another satellite, program officials said Friday, in the first key test of the XSS-11's mission. If ...

Last month, the U.S. put a new kind of satellite into orbit, the XSS-11. This bird has robotic capabilities and was designed to change orbits so it can photograph other satellites, or just objects ...

Inside the Air Force focuses on the latest developments in air and space warfare, including the Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 Raptor programs, strategic airlift and military space, unmanned systems ...