Space & Missile Defense Report

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—United Launch Alliance (ULA) plans to recover the first stage engine of its Next-Generation Launch System (NGLS), called Vulcan, in mid-air after flight in an effort to dramatically […]

U.S. Strategic Command’s (USSTRATCOM) Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) is planning to bring in a body of commercial satellite industry officials in the coming months to tighten relations between government […]

Israel and the United States have carried out testing of a rocket intercept system known as David’s Sling that is being jointly developed by the two countries. The Israel Missile […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–South Korea, for the first time, procured Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile capability by entering into a letter of offer and acceptance (LOA) with the United […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and the Army are gearing up for four major flight tests of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) that begin in May at […]

Orbital ATK [OA] is designing a third stage to be integrated on United Launch Alliance’s [ULA] Delta IV Heavy rocket for a future NASA mission to study the sun’s atmosphere. […]

Blue Origin said April 7 it recently completed acceptance testing of its BE-3 rocket engine, calling it the first new hydrogen engine to be developed in the United States in […]

Days after a scathing report deemed the Sea-based X-band radar a flop, the deputy director of the Missile Defense Agency came to the defense of the platform on April 7, […]

The United States is on the “wrong side” of the ballistic missile defense (BMD) cost curve because it shoots down inexpensive rockets with very expensive ones, according to a key […]