Space & Missile Defense Report

NASA recently announced Boeing [BA] and Space Exploration Technology Corp. (SpaceX) had delayed flight test dates for their respective Commercial Crew efforts. Boeing set its orbital (uncrewed) flight test for […]

The Air Force on Dec. 13 released a draft request for proposal (RFP) for its U.S. Enterprise Rideshare Long Duration Propulsive EELV Secondary Payload Adapters (LDPE), according to a notice posted on Federal […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said its new Sea Based Terminal (SBT) system achieved its second ballistic missile intercept during a Dec. 14 test over the Pacific Ocean. During the […]

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), which was planning to pick a “preferred” missile defense site in the eastern United States by year’s end, has delayed its decision until “next […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to competitively award two contracts in fiscal year 2017 to integrate and test a lower power version of an airborne laser demonstrator for use […]

Curtiss-Wright [CW] on Dec. 7 said it has agreed to acquire Teletronics Technology Corporation (TTC), a provider of data acquisition and flight test instrumentation systems primarily for the aerospace and […]

The Air Force is gearing up to solicit bids to have industry take over operating two constellations of military communications satellites: the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system and its predecessor, […]

The Air Force approved Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] design to upgrade the GPS ground control system with new capabilities for the newest GPS III satellites, the company said Dec. 12. The […]

The U.S. Air Force signed off on Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] the newly upgraded Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Block 10 ground system the company said Dec. 6. The company characterized […]