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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 […]

The Air Force is requesting roughly 9.5 percent more funding for fiscal year 2016 than what was enacted in FY ’15 while the service also plans on competing three launches. […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is “very close” to approving an acquisition strategy for its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) in which it will pick, then compete, […]

NASA requests $1.2 billion for the Commercial Crew spaceflight program (CCP) in FY ’16, a nearly 54 percent increase from the $805 million that was enacted in FY ’14, according […]

Airbus Defence and Space partnered with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) of the Australian Ministry of Defence to improve the protection of wide-body aircraft and helicopters in a […]

The Canadian subsidiary of DRS Technologies will provide tactical integrated communications systems to the Royal New Zealand Navy’s ANZAC-class frigates, the company said on Feb. 25. This subcontract is in […]