Space & Missile Defense Report

The Air Force on Jan. 25 awarded a pair of contracts to Boeing [BA] and Arctic Slope Technical Services (ARTS) under its Booster Propulsion Technology Maturation Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) […]

NASA on Jan. 13 successfully completed the final development test of the Orion space capsule’s parachute system, according to an agency statement. During the test, engineers demonstrated that when the […]

The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program was scheduled to use the Jan. 28 flight test to collect data in space for the first time, according to […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Jan. 28 successfully evaluated performance of alternate divert thrusters for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system’s exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), according to an agency […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Blue Origin recently achieved a pair of rocket milestones. The Air Force on Jan. 25 updated the certified baseline configuration of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) founder Elon Musk predicts the company will successfully land its booster stages in roughly 70 percent of attempts in 2016 and “hopefully” 90 percent in […]

NASA on Jan. 14 awarded Orbital ATK [OA], Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Cargo Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contracts, leaving Lockheed Martin [LMT] on the outside […]

The first Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite developed by Lockheed Martin [LMT] finished a key milestone in December in preparation for a late 2016 launch. GPS III space […]

The Air Force on Jan. 13 said it awarded Orbital ATK [OA] and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) contracts as part of its effort to get […]