Space

The 45th Space Wing Feb. 11 launched a rocket carrying the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a NASA spacecraft, out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The United Launch Alliance Atlas […]

International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, successfully carried the Intelsat 16 satellite to orbit for Intelsat S.A., the […]

International Launch Services (ILS) and global satellite operator SES Feb. 11 announced the ILS Proton launch of the SES-3 satellite with the Kazsat-2 telecommunications satellite in 2011. “ILS and SES […]

Space Shuttle Endeavour successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center early Feb. 8, marking the first flight of 2010 and the beginning of the Shuttle’s final year of operation. During […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received an Air Force contract valued at $243.5 million for an eighth production lot of the JASSM cruise missile. “This contract enables Lockheed Martin to continue […]

Italian Air Force Brig. Gen. Alessandro Pera Feb. 1 took over as the new head of the Active Layered Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (ALTBMD) Program Office, succeeding retired Brig. Gen. […]

By Emelie Rutherford NASA leaders argued yesterday President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel the Constellation program would not hamper human spaceflight, as lawmakers whose states’ economies are linked to the […]

Raydiance Corporation, developer of the world’s first commercial-grade ultrafast laser, today announced it has partnered with the Small Spacecraft Division in the Engineering Directorate at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett […]

The Air Force has completed a capabilities-based assessment for a follow-on cruise missile that looks at more than just the attributes of such a future munition, a service official said […]

Military analysts told lawmakers recently the Navy may need to buy dozens of additional ships beyond those currently planned to satisfy President Barack Obama’s vision for sea- based missile defense […]