A Chinese spy balloon in the US is the latest in a long history of governments spying on each other from the sky. Aerial surveillance dates back to the French Revolution to UFO rumors to the Cuban ...

Diagnostic tests and months of stable, successful operation have resolved concerns raised early this year about long-term prospects for the powerful telescopic camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance ...

Imagine a scenario where an earthquake brings down an industrial complex, trapping the survivors inside and as the disaster response team arrives, they unpack a grenade launcher and start lobbing ...

The camera, I think, is going to be our best inspector. —John F. Kennedy The President s brief, blunt remark was deliberate understatement. For months trie Cuban skies have belonged to U S photo ...

The HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can take interesting astronomical pictures, team scientists report today. The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) based at the ...

The spacecraft that has quietly rewritten our understanding of Mars just crossed a very visible milestone: the Mars ...

On Oct.13, 2014 something very strange happened to the camera aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully ...

A Russian military Tupolev Tu-154M loaded with high definition cameras is flying reconnaissance missions along the Canadian/US border today, with permissions dating back to the Cold War. The Tu-154M ...

Thomas E. McHale, 63, manager of project engineering for C.A.I., a division of Recon/Optical Inc., was responsible for the design and production of reconnaissance cameras used worldwide. A longtime ...

Seventy years ago, the greatest military operation in history was launched as the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe in what history recalls as D-Day.