Space & Missile Defense Report

The Navy has accepted the third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-3) communications satellite following successful completion of on-orbit testing, according to prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT]. MUOS-3, launched Jan. 20, […]

The Air Force could award as many as four contracts totaling $160 million as part of its next-generation rocket propulsion system request for proposals (RFP) released June 2, according to […]

High-level Air Force and Defense Department officials are in “intense discussion” over whether to enact the waiver that would allow the service to use Russian-developed RD-180 rocket engines banned for […]

The fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) eliminates the reported $1 billion launch capability contract with United Launch Alliance (ULA) moving forward, […]

The Air Force certified Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) to compete for national security space launches, service Secretary Deborah James said May 26 on Twitter. James didn’t specify which launch […]

NASA on May 26 announced the nine instruments that will participate in a mission that could be worth around $2 billion over its program life to investigate whether Europa, Jupiter’s […]

The United States will fast-track arms sales to Gulf Cooperation Council member states through a dedicated Foreign Military Sales (FMS) office in an effort to bolster those nations’ abilities to […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA), later this year, will release further details on a pair of initiatives for making launch purchases “Amazon-simple” while reducing lead times from years to months, company […]

The Air Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) on April 20 successfully launched the service’s secretive, unmanned space plane called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) at 11:05 a.m. EDT […]