Space & Missile Defense Report

Orbital Sciences [ORB] said Thursday its second attempt at test launching its Antares medium-class rocket would take place no earlier than Saturday late afternoon. Orbital’s mission management team met Thursday […]

NASA is investigating outsourcing use of the unique capabilities of its Huntsville, Ala.-based Marshall Space Flight Center, according to a notice posted on Federal Business Opportunities. NASA could open up […]

Funding is available to complete the design and development Proof of Concept of the U.S.-German and Italian missile defense effort, the Medium Extended Air and Missile Defense System (MEADS), Defense […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–The Navy plans to deploy a solid-state laser on a ship early next year that has been successfully tested against unmanned aerial vehicles and could be used to […]

A new business relationship is growing between MBDA and Thales UK Belfast, the core Team Complex Weapons (Team CW) air defense missile development program, consisting of the Common Anti-air Modular […]

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said recently it notified Congress recently of possible Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of AIM-120C7 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and AIM-9X2 Sidewinder missiles […]

The Defense Department is considering multi-year approaches to acquiring commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) services, according to the Pentagon’s information technology (IT) czar. DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) Teri Takai told […]

In the next few weeks the Defense Department  will deploy a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD) ballistic missile defense system to Guam as a “precautionary move to strengthen […]

Raytheon [RTN] recently said its Patriot missiles, critical components of the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, have received Army approval for a second recertification, extending the operational life of […]