Space & Missile Defense Report

The Air Force on July 25 said a weather satellite that stopped responding to commands in February is not repairable and that it wouldn’t take further action toward recovery. The […]

The core stage development schedule for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) remains aggressive and any additional delays will threaten the program’s internal goal of launch readiness by September 2018, according […]

The State Department approved a possible $65 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) request to South Korea for SM-2 Block IIIB Standard missiles, containers and support. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency […]

With the signing of three launches for Planet (formerly Planet Labs) announced July 12, Rocket Lab is filling out most of the early space in its manifest for missions with […]

Blue Origin will test New Shepard’s capsule escape system on its next flight, according to a company official. Brett Alexander, director of business development and strategy at Blue Origin, said […]

Procurement bureaucracy and Small Business Administration (SBA) regulations are discouraging small businesses from contracting with NASA, according to industry executives. Carol Craig, president and CEO of Craig Technologies in Cape […]

NASA said July 15 it passed a key milestone for its Mars 2020 rover program, allowing it to proceed with final design and construction. George Tahu, Mars 2020 program executive, […]

Current and former missile-defense officials are lamenting the presumed demise of the Army’s high-flying surveillance blimp. The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor, shoehorned into the acronym […]