Space & Missile Defense Report

The Army has awarded Leonardo DRS a contract to fulfill an urgent operational need to protect soldiers from enemy unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The $42 million contract for counter-UAS capability […]

NASA has picked SpaceX to launch the Sentinel-6A ocean-observing satellite and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to launch the Landsat-9 Earth-imaging satellite, the agency announced Oct. 19. Landsat-9 is slated to lift off as early […]

Prompted by a controversial House-passed proposal to create a space corps in the Air Force Department, the Department of Defense has begun a “very good dialogue” with Congress on how […]

U.S. and NATO forces conducted a live-fire integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) exercise involving a ballistic missile and three anti-ship cruise missile targets during the Formidable Shield 2017 (FS17) […]

The State Department approved a possible $15 billion sale of a Lockheed Martin [LMT] Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to Saudi Arabia, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) […]

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Oct. 3 that nine proposed future frigates being built in the 2020s will include the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Aegis missile defense system. Speaking at the opening […]

Australia’s government has decided to form a national space agency to coordinate and lead the country’s space activities, which are scattered across many agencies. Michaelia Cash, Australia’s acting minister for […]

The newly revived National Space Council plans to hold its first meeting “in just a few short weeks” in Washington, D.C., Vice President Mike Pence said late Sept. 25. Pence, […]

SpaceX has begun “serious development” of a new rocket that it plans to use to start colonizing Mars in the 2020s, company founder Elon Musk announced Sept. 29. SpaceX has already ordered tooling […]