The U.S. Navy plays a crucial role in the space industry through Naval Space Command (NAVSPACECOM). NAVSPACECOM is tasked with developing space capabilities to provide the Navy with global communications, targeting, and reconnaissance using space-based assets. They advocate for space-based capabilities and integrate them into maritime operations, working with partners like the U.S. Space Command to ensure maritime operations are supported by space assets. The Navy also has a history of contributing to manned spaceflight programs, including astronaut recovery and the development of satellite technology for navigation and communication.
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Rick Svetkoff joined the U.S. Navy in 1978 and flew A-4 fighter jets.
Rick Svetkoff left the U.S. Navy in 1984 and then worked as a Continental Airlines pilot.
The 2018 hacking of a U.S. Navy subcontractor by the Chinese Ministry of State Security resulted in the theft of secret submarine codes.
Deliveries of C-27J MPA to the Royal Saudi Navy will begin in 2029.
The Royal Saudi Navy will become the twenty-first operator of the C-27J worldwide.
The contract with the Royal Saudi Navy is the first C-27J acquisition program to include integration of weaponry for maritime employment.
LampreyMMAUV was developed with a U.S. Navy focus on covert assured access and sea denial.
The W-5 capsule carried a specialized payload for the U.S. Navy focused on data collection during reentry.
The U.S. Navy orbited the first radar detector under the GRAB program in 1960.
By November 2025 satellite and aerial photos revealed two large square structures in the Dalian ship’s hull sections that resemble structures used to contain nuclear reactors in U.S. Navy nuclear carriers.
During the 1960s the Navy developed the GRAB and later POPPY programs while the Air Force pursued Program 770 large SIGINT satellites and Program 11 (later Program 989) small suitcase-sized satellites.
The NRO Navy component known as Program C was centered at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.
The Naval Research Laboratory partnered with Cheryl Nickerson’s research group at Arizona State University to reproduce MELSP findings using a Rotating Wall Vessel bioreactor that simulates low-shear microgravity on Earth.
Dr. Gladys West joined the Naval Proving Ground in 1956 as the second Black woman hired as a mathematician at the facility.
Dr. Gladys West worked in satellite geodesy at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
Hanwha Ocean has been shortlisted to supply up to 12 submarines to the Royal Canadian Navy under the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project alongside Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.
The Princess Anne facility is designed to support a national coalition that includes Firefly Aerospace to increase flight test cadence to one launch per week for the U.S. Navy and the Missile Defense Agency.
Telespazio Ibérica currently provides satellite connectivity to 8 Spanish Navy ships.
Navy helicopters will deploy from the recovery vessel to pick astronauts up one at a time.
The initial $85.2 million obligation for the contract utilizes fiscal 2026 funds from multiple sources including Navy and Air Force Operation and Maintenance funds.