Space & Missile Defense Report

The Air Force is laying the ground work for procurement of a new-start program called the Weather System Follow-On (WSF) with a Milestone A goal of fiscal year 2015. Air […]

ATK [ATK] President and CEO Mark DeYoung on Nov. 19 said his company and its board of directors believe that Orbital Sciences [ORB] has a sound recovery plan for NASA’s […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) could have internal tradeoffs done as early as January on what will go into its next-generation launch vehicle to pair with the company’s Blue Origin-developed engine, […]

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) moved up by one year the launch of its second Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellite from fiscal year 2022 to a goal of […]

The Navy’s third satellite in Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program has delivered to Cape Canaveral, Fla. ahead of plans to launch the bird in January, prime contractor Lockheed Martin […]

The Defense Department has a goal of eliminating exemptions to the federal government’s orbital debris mitigation standard practices by 2018, according to a key official. Office of the Secretary of […]

An Air Force investigation has found that a fuel leak is to blame for an October 2012 GPS IIF-3 launch RL-10B anomaly, the service said last week. The fuel leak […]

The Air Force’s eighth Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-series satellite (GPS IIF-8) signaled to controllers it is functioning properly about 3.5 hours after the Oct. 29 launch, according to prime […]

More discussion is needed about the potential limitations of satellite disaggregation for the Defense Department, including changes that would be made to interconnecting systems and the financial investment those changes […]