Space & Missile Defense Report

The fiscal year 2018 budget blueprint released the morning of March 16 featured, as expected, a $54 billion boost in defense spending, but it also trims NASA’s budget by roughly […]

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] two contracts totaling $103 million for technology risk reduction work, the Pentagon announced March 9. One contract, valued at […]

The U.S. military has begun deploying a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD) battery to South Korea to protect against North Korean ballistic missiles. The “first elements” of the Lockheed […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] delivered the fifth payload for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program to prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman said March 6. The payload was delivered […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) delayed the launch of a Delta IV rocket carrying the WGS-9 satellite for the U.S. Air Force for no earlier than March 14 after finding a […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) on March 1 successfully lofted a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. The […]

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos on March 7 unveiled new details about the company’s New Glenn orbital rocket, including a two stage and three stage variant and capability of taking […]

Raytheon [RTN] completed a major systems engineering milestone for the final software iteration in the U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) and also developed […]

The House on March 7 approved the NASA Transition bill of 2017, which cleared the Senate in February, according to a House Science, Space and Technology (SST) Committee statement. The bill authorizes […]