Space & Missile Defense Report

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] will buy back $50 million more of its stock, adding to an earlier $50 million repurchase, the company announced. The move comes after an Orbital Taurus […]

How Mutual Assured Destruction That Worked In 20th Century May Fail To Protect Nation In 21st Ballistic Missile Defense Might Be Only Feasible Response To Anonymous Strike The United States […]

Balanced, Steady Funding Sought For Missile Defense As President Obama is considering whether to resurrect the former White House National Space Council, a recent report recommends just such a move, […]

When United States Moves To Defend Its Unarmed Ship, China Sends Armed Patrol Boats To International Waters Chinese ships nearly caused a collision with an unarmed U.S. Navy surveillance ship […]

The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket left the Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, to begin a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site […]

A piece of space junk hurtling through the void narrowly missed hitting and depressurizing the $100 billion International Space Station, forcing station crew members to take brief shelter in a […]

A long-time critic of the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system endorsed President Obama’s offer to discuss the EMD with Russians who vociferously oppose it. Theodore Postol, an MIT professor […]

GREENBELT, Md. — Even before President Obama releases his detailed federal government budget plan for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, leaders of NASA centers across the nation are […]

A USA Today story this morning asserted that the European Missile Defense (EMD) system would cost $9 billion to $13 billion and might not work, a report likely to be […]

GREENBELT, Md. – Any changes that President Obama may make in the U.S. space program should be made swiftly, to reduce anxiety and uncertainty caused by rumors churning throughout industry, […]