Space & Missile Defense Report

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has picked Boeing [BA] over two other companies to design, build and test an unmanned, reusable spaceplane that could deploy small satellites, DARPA and […]

Rocket Lab, a new entrant to the space-access market, conducted the first flight test of its ground-launched Electron rocket May 25. During the test, the two-stage, 17-meter-high rocket lifted off […]

The Air Force’s fiscal year 2018 budget request contains billions of dollars to ramp up development work on several major new aviation and missile programs, including the B-21 bomber and the Long […]

Top U.S. Air Force officials are standing behind a significant increase in funding the service is proposing for its controversial Long Range Stand-Off (LRSO) nuclear cruise missile for fiscal 2018. […]

The U.S. Air Force’s new unfunded priorities list includes billions of dollars to buy more aircraft in fiscal year 2018, including F-35A fighter jets, MC-130J special operations transports and KC-46A […]

Efforts to achieve low-cost, fast access to space for the U.S. military stand to benefit from an increasingly favorable financial, political and technological climate, Air Force and industry experts said […]

The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B reusable spaceplane returned to Earth May 7 after spending almost two years in space, its longest mission ever. The Boeing [BA]-built orbital test vehicle landed on a runway […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] announced May 8 that its AR1 engine, one of two contenders for the first stage of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) Vulcan next-generation launch vehicle, has successfully completed its critical design […]

The U.S. Air Force, which has strived in recent years to make its satellites more resilient to potential attack, expects to receive funding in the Trump administration’s upcoming fiscal year […]