Space & Missile Defense Report

Orbital ATK [OA] wants the Air Force to make its roughly 1,000 excess ICBM motors available for purchase and use in commercial launches. Orbital ATK Vice President of Strategy and […]

Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI) is confident that its Commercial Space Operations Center (ComSpOC) will grow by the end of 2016 to track the same number of objects in space as […]

Space situational awareness (SSA) data sharing involving the Defense Department hit an all-time high in 2015, according to a key official. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space, Strategic and […]

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is refocusing on the defense market after completing the Orbcomm Second Generation (OG2) constellation, finding that many of the entrepreneurs pushing for new small satellite ventures […]

NOAA is seeing growing demand for its Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) that provides free space weather products and services. NOAA National SWPC Physicist Terrance Onsager said April 4 the […]

Blue Origin launched and landed its New Shepard rocket for the third time on April 2, reaching an apogee of 103 km, according to a company statement. The company said […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) on April 8 successfully launched its Falcon 9 and, for the first time, landed the rocket’s first stage. The company’s NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-8 (CRS-8) […]

The Army and Raytheon [RTN] recently demonstrated the ability of an upgraded Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD) system to detect incoming threat missiles and launch multiple interceptors to […]

A top State Department official hopes to talk with China about the technical limitations of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in light of discussions to possibly put […]