Space

  • Boeing Network And Space Systems Execs See Volatility, Opportunity

    Boeing Network And Space Systems Execs See Volatility, Opportunity

    Boeing‘s [BA] Network and Space Systems business is working to keep its “tools sharp” to be competitive as opportunities come up in a volatile marketplace, the sector president said. “It’s […]

  • Air Force Hopeful New EELV Approach Good For Lockheed-Boeing Team

    Air Force Hopeful New EELV Approach Good For Lockheed-Boeing Team

    The Air Force secretary said he hopes the government’s new unified approach to buying the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) will help both taxpayers and United Launch Alliance (ULA). The […]

  • Space Industry Eager For NASA Direction

    Space Industry Eager For NASA Direction

    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.–NASA’s indecision regarding the future of U.S. space flight could soon have ramifications for employment at many of the nation’s big aerospace firms, the head of a […]

  • Panel Chair Concerned About GMD Funding

    Panel Chair Concerned About GMD Funding

    The head of a House panel is expressing concern about levels of funding for ground-based interceptors (GBIs) that are part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system for national missile […]

  • Air Force Transfers SBSS Control To Operators

    Air Force Transfers SBSS Control To Operators

    The Air Force has transferred Satellite Control Authority of the SBSS Block 10 satellite to the 1st Space Operations Squadron, 50th Operations Group at Schriever AFB, Colo., officials said recently. […]

  • Key GPS III Flight Software Milestone Complete

    Key GPS III Flight Software Milestone Complete

    The next generation Global Position System, known as GPS III, has successfully completed its first major flight software integration milestone at prime contractor Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] software integration laboratory in […]

  • Priority: Getting Back To Flight Testing, Boeing GMD Official Says

    Priority: Getting Back To Flight Testing, Boeing GMD Official Says

    There is still no resolution of what caused a Ground-based Missile Defense (GMD) interceptor to fail to hit its ballistic missile target over the Pacific in December, though officials from […]

  • Critics Pan New Satellite Buy Strategy

    Critics Pan New Satellite Buy Strategy

    A new Air Force purchasing strategy that aims to save money through higher-quantity satellite buys is seen by some critics as counterproductive. The new Evolutionary Acquisition for Space Strategy, or […]

  • Air Force Launches New NRO Satellite

    Air Force Launches New NRO Satellite

    A classified military payload for the National Reconnaissance Office was launched recently from Cape Canaveral at Space Launch Complex-37 in Florida. A Delta IV rocket blasted off at 6:38 p.m. […]

  • Briefs

    Briefs

    NASA is touting what it says is a key test leading to the development of future heavy-lift launch vehicles: a structural strength test of a 20-foot-tall aluminum-lithium test cylinder, which […]