Space
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SpaceNASA Unveils Heavy-Lift Rocket Design
NASA announced recently its intended design for a heavy-lift rocket that will to carry astronauts to Mars, appeasing lawmakers irked by a delay in the plan’s unveiling. The new rocket, […]
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SpaceBoeing Receives $1 Billion Contract Modification For Wideband Global SATCOM Satellites
Boeing [BA] recently announced it received a $1.09 billion contract modification from the Air Force adding funding to the existing Block II follow-on contract for full production, launch and on-orbit […]
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SpaceU.S. Signs Agreement On Missile Defense Deployment In Romania
The United States and Romania announced that they recently signed a government-to-government agreement on the deployment of the Ballistic Missile Defense System in Romania. This agreement calls for the establishment […]
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SpaceMEADS Moves Closer To First Flight Test With Successful Launch Simulation
MEADS International recently said the Medium Extended Air Defense System’s (MEADS) Integrated Launcher Electronics System (ILES) recently executed a simulated missile launch, moving the program closer to its initial flight […]
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CongressNASA Unveils $1.6 Billion Commercial Crew Plan
NASA unveiled this week its plans to pay companies $1.6 billion to develop commercial services to carry astronauts to low-Earth orbit. The space agency released a draft request for proposals […]
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CongressNASA Unveils Heavy-Lift Rocket Design
NASA announced yesterday its intended design for a heavy-lift rocket that will to carry astronauts to Mars, appeasing lawmakers irked by a delay in the plan’s unveiling. The new rocket, […]
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SpaceIsrael Deploys Third Iron Dome Battery
To defend more citizens from rocket attack, Israel emplaced its third Iron Dome battery recently, the day before the nation’s two million children returned to school, the military said. The […]
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SpaceSea-Based Missile Defense Test Fails
The Navy’s first test of the advanced Standard Missile 3 Block 1B failed during a flight recently when the interceptor failed to hit its target over the Pacific Ocean, the […]
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SpaceTeledyne Technologies Awarded $595 Million MDA Simulation Work
Teledyne Technologies Inc.’s [TDY] subsidiary Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc., recently said it was awarded a potential $595 million, five-year IDIQ contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for its Objective […]
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SpaceGPS Antennas Delivered To Air Force
A unit of Northrop Grumman [NOC] has delivered 16 new antennas that will be installed on two of the next generation of Air Force Global Positioning Unit satellites, the company […]