Space & Missile Defense Report

The land version of the sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile System planned for installation in Europe has completed its first test firing of a Standard Missile interceptor against a simulated target, […]

Impacts from a loss of the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine are significant and action must be taken during fiscal year 2014 to mitigate those impacts, according to a key Defense […]

The Air Force on May 22 successfully launched the satellite NROL-33 for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, according to launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA). The […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A top Air Force official defended the service’s handling of its launch range infrastructure after a tracking radar issue in March delayed the launch of a spy […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. –The United Kingdom would like to increase its level of satellite communications (SATCOM) partnership with the United States, though nothing has been formalized, according to the head of […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said May 22 its commercial launch division will provide launch services for DigitalGlobe [DGI] as it sends the first super-spectral, high-resolution commercial satellite for earth observation to space on […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The United States and Taiwan expect to launch six COSMIC-2 weather satellites into low-inclination orbits in late 2015 and another six into high-inclination orbits in early 2018, […]

A federal judge on May 8 dissolved the temporary injunction issued in the case of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) v. United States, enabling business to continue between the Air Force, launch […]

Declining budgets for the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC) are allowing the agency to pursue riskier projects, according to a key official. AFSMC Executive Director David Madden […]