Space & Missile Defense Report

There is no funding for future launches of the Air Force’s Super Strypi rocket, placing the launch vehicle’s future in doubt following a launch failure the evening of Nov. 3. […]

NASA on Nov. 5 both delayed its Cargo Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract award and eliminated Boeing [BA] from contention for the program thought to be worth as much as $14 […]

The Air Force on Oct. 31 successfully launched its 11th satellite in the Global Positioning System IIF series (GPS IIF-11). Launch took place at 12:13 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral […]

A NASA team was unable to isolate a single technical root cause for Orbital ATK’s [OA] Antares launch failure, but instead found three credible technical root causes (TRC), of which […]

The Air Force Oct. 30 morning delayed the launch of its 11th satellite in the Global Positioning System IIF series (GPS IIF-11) from Oct. 30 until Oct. 31, according to […]

The U.S. Air Force was set to launch the 11th Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF series satellite (GPS IIF-11) on Oct. 30. The Air Force and launch provider United Launch […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] delivered 13 of its Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors to the Army in September, the first missiles to be delivered 19 months after […]

The Army expects to perform roughly $5 billion less than the previous year in Foreign Military Sales (FMS) in 2016, which the service’s acquisition executive attributes to budget instability among […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Oct. 23 denied Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] protest of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex-Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (NCMC-ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract […]