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Contractors submitted proposals by the Feb. 16 deadline for NASA’s second Cargo Resupply Services effort (CRS-2), which could feature multiple awards worth up to a combined $14 billion. Lockheed Martin […]

Air Force Secretary Deborah James on Feb. 25 doubted the service would meet lawmakers’ 2019 deadline to develop a next-generation rocket engine. “To have that 2019 deadline there is pretty […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is requesting less funding in its fiscal year 2016 budget request for two major satellite programs than what was enacted in FY ’15. […]

Orbital ATK’s [OA] costs and schedule under its Cargo Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA remain on target four months after one of the company’s rockets exploded near the launch […]

U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) is planning a third increment for its Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) Mission System (JMS), command chief Navy Adm. Cecil Haney said Feb. 6. JMS is […]

The House on Feb. 10 passed a fiscal year 2015 NASA authorization bill that is almost identical to the one approved last year by the House, but not taken up […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) successfully launched NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission Feb. 11, but decided against attempting to ‘hard’ land its Falcon 9 first stage booster due […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s planned March 2016 launch of its Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series satellite (GOES-R) is at risk because it is near capacity in the […]

The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency awarded a contract worth up to $77 million to Leidos [LDOS] to provide systems engineering and integration support for the Ballistic Missile Defense […]

A key lawmaker expressed concern Feb. 4 with what he called the “compressed” timelines in NASA’s Commercial Crew program (CCP). House Science, Space and Technology (SST) Space Subcommittee Chairman Steven […]