International

With Space Program, China Sees Military, Economic, Political Gains; China Makes Careful But Large Moves China sees its space program as an investment, not as an unwelcome budgetary outlay, a […]

Pyongyang Developing Small Nuclear Weapon To Fit Atop Its Missiles North Korea fired missiles into the Yellow Sea, as the isolated regime separately is developing smaller-sized nuclear weapons as warheads […]

Both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates condemned Iranian moves to produce nuclear weapons, saying that would pose a grave threat to the existence of Israel. Sen. Barack Obama […]

Neither of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates is expected to press for aggressive U.S. policies in space or the procurement of anti-satellite weapons, a new report suggests. Thus no major […]

The Venus Express spacecraft that will search for life on other planets is kicking off its work by focusing on one planet that likely can support life: Earth. The European […]

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday to take a new crew to the International Space Station for a half-year stay in orbit. That crew includes Expedition 18 […]

Space Systems/Loral Gains Contract To Provide Satellite For SES SES, the European satellite operator, will buy another Loral satellite. Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL] […]

Vice Admiral Says Missile Threat Justifies Shift From Building New-Design Destroyers Back To Older Arleigh Burke Design By Geoff Fein The Navy has to move toward an open systems environment […]

The Laser Guided Rocket (LGR) passed a wind tunnel test, Raytheon Co. [RTN] reported. That tunnel operation produced both high fidelity flight simulations and data for developing the aerodynamic model […]

Downward pressures on the defense budgets and concerns about the Army moving funds from current force heavy combat vehicles into Future Combat Systems (FCS) work is part of the current […]