Space & Missile Defense Report

The Air Force is generating competition for space launch range support contracts like communications upgrades by targeting small businesses, according to the service’s top range officer. Air Force Spacelift Range […]

Orbital ATK [OA] is continuing to collaborate with International Space Company Kosmotras—a joint project formed by Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan—on ideas for the sputtering Dnepr Program, which involves converting ICBMs […]

An early morning April 29, last-minute amendment from Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) kept strong restrictions on the national security waiver available to the Defense Department to use RD-180s beyond ones […]

The Air Force vowed to scrub a launch competition between fiscal years 2018 and 2022 if it does not get legislative relief allowing a contractor to bid using the Russian-developed […]

M-Code, the Defense Department’s next generation military position, navigation and timing (PNT) capability, could be fielded by the end of the decade, if not sooner, according to a key Air […]

The Air Force on April 24 released a pair of key documents on Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) related to its pursuit of a next-generation rocket propulsion system. The Air Force […]

The Senate on April 27 confirmed Dava Newman as NASA deputy administrator by a vote of 87-0. Newman is a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and of engineering systems at […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) on April 27 launched a satellite developed by Thales Alenia Space for Turkmenistan. Launch took place at 7:03 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force […]

Raytheon [RTN] and Germany’s Lechmotoren, a company of the Jenoptik Group, are partnering to produce advanced power generators for the Patriot air and missile defense system, Raytheon said on April […]

NASA issued Orbital ATK [OA] a stop work notice on April 8 after Ball Aerospace [BLL] protested the agency’s contract award for Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2). NASA spokeswoman Karen […]