Space

The House Appropriations Committee yesterday released a draft mark-up of the FY ’12 budget for NASA that proposes to slash the agency’s request by $1.9 billion, or 10 percent, to […]

The Air Force on recently successfully launched the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS-1) prototype satellite from the Minotaur I launch vehicle at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Va., the service and […]

NASA said that all of the mirrors that will fly aboard its James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been polished. Northrop Grumman [NOC] is the prime contractor for JWST. “Webb’s […]

Aerojet [GY] QinetiQ, and European Aerospace Defence and Space Co.‘s (EADS) Astrium Crisa, said they have entered a joint agreement to supply the XENITH(TM) (Xenon Ion Thruster) ion propulsion system […]

Due to repeated development and delivery delays, House appropriators have slashed over $400 million from the Navy and the Air Force’s weapons procurement fiscal year 2012 request for the Advanced […]

Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc. [TDY] recently said it finalized its strategic alliance agreement with Aerojet-General Corp. [GY] to cooperate in the development and production of propulsion systems for launch and […]

Raytheon [RTN] recently said it received a $1.7 billion Direct Commercial Sales contract to upgrade Saudi Arabia’s Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to the latest Configuration-3. The award includes […]

At the Paris Air Show recently, MBDA unveiled the CVS 401 Persues concept missile system representing the Concept Visions group’s vision of a multi-role strike weapon system for 2030 and […]

Raytheon [RTN] recently broke ground for a new approximately $70 million missile integration facility on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. When it is completed, the facility will provide final assembly […]

MBDA and ISL, the Franco-German research institute of St. Louis, signed an international partnering agreement extending the scope of existing ground force cooperation to missiles between the two organizations. MBDA […]