Space & Missile Defense Report

Northrop Grumman [NOC] supported the flight testing of a U.S. Air Force Minuteman III ICBM on Sept. 23, the company said on Nov. 25. The ICBM flight test was conducted […]

NASA was set to try launching its uncrewed Orion space vehicle on the morning of Dec. 5 after scrubbing the Dec. 4 launch due to mechanical issues, according to a […]

Airbus Group and Safran Group on Dec. 3 said that their joint venture for launch activities will begin operations on Jan. 1, 2015, working with the existing Ariane 5 launchers […]

The conferenced fiscal year 2015 defense authorization bill released Dec. 2 protects the use of Russian rocket engines procured before Feb. 1 in national security space launches. The bill contains […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] completed thermal vacuum testing on the fourth satellite scheduled to join the U.S. Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) constellation, the company said on Dec. 1. This […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] completed an Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) of the production, deployment, and initial sustainment phase for the U.S. Air Force’s Enhanced Polar System (EPS) Control and Planning Segment […]

The Navy plans on expanding a commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) technology that enables bandwidth sharing throughout its patrol coastal (PC) fleet by fiscal year 2016. The technology, known Vipersat, improves […]

The Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) completed a successful test of the Barak-8 Air and Missile Defense System on Nov. 10, prime contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said. The Barak-8s […]

The Pentagon’s sea-based ballistic missile defense system known as Aegis successfully took out a short range ballistic missile and two low flying cruise missiles during a test on Nov. 6 […]