Space & Missile Defense Report

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans a pair of key satlet flight experiments in fiscal year 2017 for its Phoenix program, according to an agency official. DARPA Tactical […]

Boeing [BA] delayed by roughly six months its first human mission to the International Space Station with its CST-100 Starliner capsule as well as a number of key tests. Boeing […]

Though the Pentagon sees “great leverage” in some of the small satellite developments that industry is bringing forward, it still needs to figure out how to properly integrate them into […]

Rocket Lab is debating whether a focus on hand-on assembly or automation would be a better approach to ramping up production of its Electron rocket, according to a company official. […]

Orbital ATK’s [OA] Antares rocket is back in business following a successful launch the night of Oct. 17 on a NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission. Launch took place at […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is open to flying payloads on reusable rockets in the future, though it is unsure exactly how that will unfold, presumably because the technology is […]

An MBDA–Lockheed Martin [LMT] team said Sept. 29 that it has submitted a proposal to the German government in hopes of paving the way for a contract to develop the […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT], which has been exploring a potential extended-range version of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system for years, is optimistic that the U.S. Missile Defense Agency […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) wants to make sure its future ground system for government satellites, known as the Enterprise Ground Segment (EGS), makes cyber security a much bigger priority […]