Space

By Emelie Rutherford House lawmakers seeking more information on President Barack Obama’s new European missile-defense plans intend to grill experts this week on whether additional Navy vessels will be needed […]

MBDA has launched the CRISTAL project which aims to further extend the maturity level of the composite material molding technology from the Carbone Forge company, as required in order to […]

The Kuwait Air Defense Forces successfully test fired Raytheon‘s [RTN] Patriot Air and Missile Defense System against tactical ballistic missiles. The test firings were held last month at the Udairi […]

By Marina Malenic As President Barack Obama begins overhauling the national missile defense system devised by the previous administration, Lockheed Martin [LMT] executives see sales for the company’s related products […]

Orbital Sciences Corporation [ORB] Dec. 17 said that it has been selected by Intelsat, the leading provider of fixed satellite services, to design, build and deliver the Intelsat 23 (IS-23) […]

Alliant Techsystems [ATK] Dec. 15 performed a ground test of a full-scale attitude control motor (ACM) for the launch abort system (LAS) of NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle at ATK’s […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] missile defense systems achieved several key milestones in 2009, including five successful intercepts and numerous other major accomplishments, the company said recently. With 20 successful Aegis BMD […]

Wind River last week said that NASA has selected its VxWorks 653 as the real-time operating system for the flight and command computers in the Ares I and Ares V […]

General Dynamics [GD] Advanced Information Systems has been awarded a three-year contract potentially worth $100 million by Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to produce integrated circuits for the Navy’s Trident II […]

Completing an incredible year in which it launched 16 successful missions, United Launch Alliance capped 2009 with the launch of a Delta II carrying NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) […]