Space & Missile Defense Report

The United States is seeing an increasing willingness from China to discuss space security issues, a State Department official said. This is noteworthy because an expert on Chinese space issues […]

The Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology space subcommittee are proposing a fiscal year 2014 authorization budget for NASA that acknowledges the current fiscal climate but provides a […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] in June delivered the third of four highly elliptical earth orbit (HEO) satellite payloads contracted by the Air Force as part of the Space Based Infrared System […]

A key Senate panel wants the Defense Department to lay out its short, medium and long-term strategies for using an appropriate mix of military and commercial satellite bandwidth.  The Senate […]

The Air Force said it awarded United Launch Alliance (ULA) a nearly $1.1 billion contract for Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) production services. The not-to-exceed letter contract is for a variety of […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) let an exclusivity agreement with Russian rocket engine provider RD AMROSS expire two-and-a-half years before renewing it in the late 2000s, a direct reaction to Orbital Sciences’ [ORB] attempts to […]

Orbital Sciences [ORB] has filed a lawsuit against United Launch Alliance (ULA), according to a company spokesman, likely for access to a line of exclusive liquid propulsion rocket motor engines.  Orbital spokesman Barron […]