Space & Missile Defense Report

Alaska members of Congress are pushing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates not to cut funding for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, part of the multi-layered U.S. shield against enemy missiles. […]

President Says United States Should Counter Iranian Threat With ‘All Resources,’ Mentioning Diplomacy President Obama discussed the threat from Iran, but never mentioned missile defense, during his first formal White […]

The United States should move to defend American and allied space assets from attack, a noted analyst said. Baker Spring, a research fellow with The Heritage Foundation, a Washington think […]

United States May Not Have Time, Until 2013-2015, Before Iran Develops Nuclear-Tipped ICBM While some in Congress think the United States could cancel the European Missile Defense (EMD) program and […]

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne reported progress in work on a scramjet engine. A unit of United Technologies Corp. [UTX], Pratt stated it is a step closer to flight testing the […]

Iran proved it now possesses the technology to build intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), though further work would be required to perfect such a weapon, according to Marine Corps Gen. James […]

China is planning to build at least two nuclear powered aircraft carriers, according to a report in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo. The only plus for the United States […]

President Obama lashed out at Iran for supplying thousands of rockets and missiles to terrorists groups that launch them in attacks on Israel. Leaders in Tehran are supplying the means […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) water mission is poised for launch between July and October, the agency reported. Following word from Eurockot that launch of the Earth Explorer SMOS satellite […]

The Obama administration is willing to delay plans to construct the European Missile Defense (EMD) system as a shield against Iranian missiles, if Russia will help the United States pressure […]