Space & Missile Defense Report

The Air Force on Aug. 3 released the request for proposals (RFP) for its Global Positioning System III-3 (GPS III-3) launch scheduled for February 2019. This launch competition is important because the […]

The FAA on July 20 approved Moon Express’ lunar mission, which the company called the first time the federal government has given a private enterprise permission to travel beyond earth’s […]

The fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) communications satellite experienced a “failure” in its orbit-raising propulsion system while being transferred from its initial orbit to its final orbit June 29, […]

The State Department approved a possible $821 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) request to Japan for 246 SM-2 Block IIIB Standard missiles, equipment, and support. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency […]

Thirty-seven U.S. senators have signed a letter urging leaders of a House-Senate conference committee to provide more than $600 million for Israeli missile defense programs in the fiscal year 2017 […]

A one-second launch window for the early July 18 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) forced Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) to straddle a fine line if it wanted […]

Space Systems Loral (SSL) is taking a multi-year program to streamline operations and optimize the satellite manufacturing process and turning it into a continuous state of being, according to a […]

The United States and China have made “significant progress” on space security and sustainability issues in recent years, according to a key State Department official. Assistant Secretary of State for […]

NanoRacks, a company doing business on the International Space Station (ISS), has launched roughly six Defense Department payloads into space via ISS, a company official told sister publication Defense Daily. […]