Space & Missile Defense Report

The Army and Navy in cooperation with Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently demonstrated the Longbow missile’s use for littoral combat and potential use for shipboard launches, the company said on Jan. 14. Multiple […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has dropped its protest of the Navy’s awarding of the contract for the new Air Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) to Raytheon [RTN], allowing the service to resume work on the […]

Orbital Sciences [ORB] on Jan. 9 successfully launched its Antares medium-class rocket carrying the first of eight Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft missions to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of […]

The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] two production contracts totaling $449 million for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) and the Extended Range (ER) variant, the company said on Jan. 9.  […]

With less than a year before its first unmanned launch, the Orion program will undergo further testing and integration of modules in 2014, prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] said. The launch […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said it has entered an agreement to collaborate with the privately held Trex Enterprises Corp. to bring celestial navigation technology to the precision targeting capability for the […]

Language requiring the Air Force secretary to develop a plan to implement a new acquisition strategy for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program made it into the fiscal year […]

A team led by NASA and Ball Aerospace [BLL] seeks to demonstrate and test a high-performance, non-toxic “green” spacecraft propellant on orbit with a goal of launching it into space by October […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) on Jan. 6 successfully launched the Orbital Sciences [ORB]-built Thaicom-6 satellite on one of its Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch […]