The Defense Department will soon brief the president on possible options for a planned missile defense system that could cost ...

This concept revives the Reagan-era “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative. But while technology has advanced since the United States first attempted a space-based missile shield in the ...

In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan proposed a similar space-based defense, but the Strategic Defense Initiative, also ...

but the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as “Star Wars,” ultimately did not come to fruition because of technology and cost challenges.

We also see in the Golden Dome an echo of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) announced by President Reagan on 23 March ...

Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, speaks April 9 at the Space Symposium. Credit: Thomas Kimmell Photography Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday ...

but the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as “Star Wars,” ultimately did not come to fruition because of technology and cost challenges. Pop-up Uncle Giuseppe's on Fire Island ...

The concept appears similar to the Smart Rocks proposal from the original Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of the 1980s, which envisioned orbital battle stations carrying multiple interceptors.

When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed space as the “world’s newest warfighting domain.” Five years later, the Space Force is fully embracing its role ...

but the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as Star Wars, didn't come to fruition. The program was previously known as Iron Dome but was renamed by the Pentagon in February to Golden Dome and is ...