Space

By Marina Malenic Lockheed Martin [LMT] and ATK [ATK] March 25 announced a teaming agreement to manufacture a modernized Athena rocket that could support both civil and military space launches. […]

SES ASTRA on Friday said that the launch of its new ASTRA 3B satellite has been postponed due to an anomaly that occurred in a launcher subsystem. The launch service […]

GenCorp‘s [GY] Aerojet and the Air Force conducted a successful static test of Aerojet’s Advanced Third Stage (A3S) technology demonstration motor in support of the U.S. Family of Motors for […]

By Emelie Rutherford A senior Pentagon official told missile-defense contractors yesterday "quality control" of industry products is so poor it has risen to be one of the preeminent problems facing […]

Aerojet, a GenCorp [GY] company, and Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB], along with Aerojet’s Russian partner, SNTK, announced today that a series of NK-33 rocket engine tests conducted in Samara, Russia […]

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) have signed an agreement for the launch of an SS/L manufactured satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 as early as 2012. For […]

By Marina Malenic Funding for development of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) should be sustained until a Defense Department requirements review for future weather satellites is completed, […]

By Geoff Fein GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY] last week said it has selected Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build the geospatial imagery company’s next- generation, high-resolution Earth imaging satellite system known as […]

By Calvin Biesecker ATK [ATK] Mar. 11 announced a realignment of its business groups, including the addition of a new one that will serve the law enforcement and sporting markets, […]

By Ann Roosevelt Raytheon [RTN] has submitted its average missile unit production price for the Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS), coming in at about a third the cost of a government […]