Space & Missile Defense Report

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) $602 billion defense authorization bill, agreed to the afternoon of May 12 in a 23-3 vote, contains less procurement funding—and far more provisions curtailing […]

The House Appropriations (HAC) subcommittee that oversees NASA approved on May 18 its fiscal year 2017 draft spending bill that provides $19.5 billion to the civil space agency. The HAC […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is setting up a battle with its House counterparts over the RD-180 as it banned use of the Russian-developed rocket engine beyond those permitted […]

The House Armed Services Committee has called for an audit of the Patriot and Terminal High Area Air Defense (THAAD) system deployment and training rates in its revision of the […]

The Air Force on April 27 awarded its first competed space launch contract in more than 10 years. The service awarded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) a $83 million firm-fixed […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] is serving as subcontractor to a nascent space company developing a product to enable additive manufacturing, aggregation and assembly of large and complex systems in space without […]

A second bid was surprisingly entered into the Air Force’s first launch competition in almost a decade. It was believed that only one company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), would […]

Orbital ATK [OA] on May 5 said net income in its first quarter swung to a profit helped by lower taxes and higher operating income and the company said its […]

House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Mac Thornberry’s (R-Texas) fiscal year 2017 mark restricts the definition of a rocket propulsion system (RPS) to a main booster, first-stage rocket engine or […]