Space & Missile Defense Report

Storm clouds could be forming on the horizon for Raytheon [RTN] and its Global Positioning System (GPS) operational control segment (OCX) as Pentagon officials have escalated public criticism of the […]

Orbital ATK [OA] and United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched Orbital ATK’s Cargo Resupply Services (CRS) mission Dec. 6 after poor weather at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., scrubbed […]

The Army on Nov. 19 successfully demonstrated the ability of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] PAC-3 missile to intercept an incoming missile, the second successful test in a week of the […]

Poor weather on Dec. 4, this time gusty winds, forced Orbital ATK [OA] and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to delay their NASA Cargo Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the International […]

A full-size test version of the European Space Agency (ESA)-provided Orion spacecraft service module arrived at the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Plum Brook Station Space Power Facility late in November […]

Blue Origin on Nov. 23 vertically landed its New Shepard space vehicle at its west Texas launch site after reaching an altitude of roughly 100 km, or 329,839 feet, according […]

Congress, in the next three to four years, can have two national security space launch vehicles, competition for launches or it can get the Air Force off the Russian RD-180 […]

NASA awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] a $1.2 billion contract to restart production of the RS-25 engine for the Space Launch System (SLS), according to a company statement. The contract runs […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] signed a contract with Boeing [BA] worth nearly $200 million to complete the design, development, qualification, certification and initial production of the CST-100 Starliner service module propulsion […]