Space & Missile Defense Report

NASA Fiscal 2010 Budget Provides $900 Million Increase Over Fiscal 2009 Base Level, New Obama Document States Space Agency Budget Plan Attracts Praise, But It Also Is Seen As Short […]

Updated — Feb. 28, 2009 – 12 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: March 6 * Mission: Kepler […]

The Department of Defense must ensure new technology is more mature before permitting programs such as missile defense systems to advance toward full-rate production, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said. […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] gave NASA a proposal for Altair lunar lander design support. NASA is expected to award multiple contracts this spring. The lunar lander, part of the Constellation […]

Levin Sees Opportunity For Developing European Missile Defense Jointly With Russia Senator: Iranian President Ahmadinejad May Not Be Deterred By U.S. Retaliation Threat From Launching Missile Attack Sen. Carl Levin […]

NASA gave Oceaneering International Inc. an interim letter contract for the next-generation American spacesuit. Oceaneering, of Houston, will begin work on designing, developing and producing a new spacesuit system for […]

The United States should cut funding for the Ground-based Missile Defense program that aims to take down long-range incoming enemy missiles, focusing instead of systems that counter short- and medium-range […]

NASA selected Bell Helicopter Textron, The Boeing Co. [BA] and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a unit of United Technologies Corp. [UTX] to compete for task orders in a total $40 million […]

Republicans Assert Testing Issue A Pretext Democrats Use To Justify Slashing Funds For Missile Defense In Fiscal 2010 Budget Cuts That Harm Ground-based Missile Defense Program Would Weaken U.S. Defense […]

The AsiaSat 5 satellite will launch on an ILS Proton lifter in the July-September quarter, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) announced. Previously, the company had announced AsiaSat 5 would […]