Space & Missile Defense Report

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—United Launch Alliance (ULA) CEO Tory Bruno insists Aerojet Rocketdyne’s [AJRD] AR1 engine is still in contention to serve as the first stage of ULA’s Vulcan next-generation launch […]

By Kendall Russell / Via Satellite COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.–Reconstruction of NASA Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Launch Pad 39B should be completed by August, according to KSC Director Robert Cabana. Cabana […]

The next-generation rocket wars continued April 10 on Capitol Hill as 20 bipartisan members of the House of Representatives wrote Defense Secretary James Mattis advocating for total launch system funding […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is moving forward with its geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellite servicing program despite a lawsuit that the Justice Department on April 11 moved […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—NanoRacks wants to get the Defense Department on board with the company’s stash-and-deploy deploy-on-demand program designed to intermittently release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS), according to […]

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said it has received $2 billion in contracts from India for air and missile defense systems, including a $1.6 billion award for an advanced medium-range surface-to-air […]

A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee said April 7 that the United States should more than double its inventory of long-range, ground-based interceptors to defend against North Korea’s […]

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said April 4 he is “reviewing” the Intermediate-Range Nucle        ar Forces Treaty, underscoring the Defense Department’s focus on addressing Russia’s […]

The U.S. Navy’s new SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) has begun tracking ballistic missile targets in tests, according to Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and prime contractor Raytheon […]