Space & Missile Defense Report

The Air Force is requesting roughly 9.5 percent more funding for fiscal year 2016 than what was enacted in FY ’15 while the service also plans on competing three launches. […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is “very close” to approving an acquisition strategy for its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) in which it will pick, then compete, […]

NASA requests $1.2 billion for the Commercial Crew spaceflight program (CCP) in FY ’16, a nearly 54 percent increase from the $805 million that was enacted in FY ’14, according […]

NASA delays the launch of NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) launch, this time until Jan. 31, pending completion of minor repairs to the vehicle prior to launch. Launch provider […]

Boeing [BA] and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. laid out on Jan. 26 their timelines for delivering astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017 as part of NASA’s Commercial […]

The Air Force and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) said Jan. 23 they reached agreement on a path forward in the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) dispute between the two […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT], developer of the Air Force’s nearly multi-billion dollar Space Fence radar program, is to begin key facilities construction in early 2015 after performing a series of important […]

MOJAVE, Calif. —Stratolaunch Systems is almost 40 percent through assembly of its massive carrier aircraft and is on track for a 2016 first flight goal, according to Scaled Composites President […]

The Navy’s third in a new constellation of satellites designed to allow mobile warfighters to communicate in beyond-the-line-of-sight scenarios has been successfully launched into orbit, the service said. The Mobile […]