Space & Missile Defense Report

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) should pursue a combination of space-based and ground-based sensors to improve missile defense systems instead of favoring one or the other, according to an agency […]

Orbital ATK’s [OA] winning Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) proposal should have been rejected by NASA as unacceptable due to the company’s “dual use” spare parts plan, Ball Aerospace [BLL] […]

The head of Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC) said Space Exploration Technology Corp.’s (SpaceX) Falcon Heavy rocket certification progress depends on what the company provides from its […]

The Santa Ana (Calif.) Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA) on July 24 awarded a contract in excess of $1 million to analytics and imagery provider OmniEarth for water resource management, according […]

The Air Force on July 22 postponed its Wideband Global Satcom-7 (WGS-7) launch until July 23, citing weather at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Launch was scheduled for 8:07 […]

The Air Force is negotiating with Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) prime contractor Boeing [BA] to add anti-jam capability to future WGS satellites, starting with the eighth spacecraft, according to an […]

A NASA-funded study believes the United States could return a human to the moon in about five-to-seven years for roughly $10 billion using two independent and competing commercial service providers […]

The failed launch this June of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was likely caused by a strut in the second stage liquid oxygen tank, which broke free during flight, said the […]

The Air Force, at the moment, won’t decertify Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) from competing for military launches because the service doesn’t know if the company’s June 28 Falcon 9 […]