Space & Missile Defense Report

Obama Is Appalled At Iran Mistreating, Killing Protesters Who Allege Vote Fraud Chances Dim For Major Reduction In Iranian Missile-Nuclear Threat That Could Justify Abandoning European Missile Defense President Obama’s […]

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz is examining the feasibility of missile defense systems mounted on aircraft, such as strike fighters. Interest in the Air Launched Hit-to-Kill systems […]

Space Shuttle Endeavour has been grounded yet again by the same gremlin that kept it sitting on the launch pad last week: a leaking gaseous hydrogen venting system on the […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] finished on-orbit tests and handed over the IndoStar II-ProtoStar II satellite to ProtoStar Ltd., with the bird ready for service. That 601HP satellite will now begin […]

North Korea May Be Poised To Launch Another Taepo Dong-2 Ballistic Missile Toward Japan Or Hawaii In Early July Obama Says U.S. Poised For ‘Any Contingencies’ Although the Ground-based Midcourse […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] transferred control of the second Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite to the Air Force, which will monitor and control the new satellite from Schriever Air Force […]

North Korea aims to produce intercontinental ballistic missiles, a general said. Air Force Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and commander of the […]

The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system completed integration and testing of the space segment, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Initial testing of the ground segments also was completed. This […]

NPOESS Program Run With Cost Savings Paramount, Not Mission Success: Study Witnesses: NPOESS Is Broke, And It Is Time To Fix It; Yet Another $1 Billion Cost Rise Is Predicted […]

The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (Advanced EHF) military communications satellite is now undergoing final thermal vacuum testing, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. The second AEHF satellite completed thermal vacuum […]