Space

By Calvin Biesecker Despite pressure on defense spending in the United States and abroad, ATK‘s [ATK] new chief believes his company has plenty of opportunities to improve its market position […]

By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT] and NANA Development Corp. recently said they are partnering in the competition for the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and […]

By Emelie Rutherford A key Senate budget-writing panel endorsed a NASA budget July 22 that largely heeds a new compromise between lawmakers and the White House to build a heavy-lift […]

By Marina Malenic LONDON–The U.S. solid rocket motor industrial base must be consolidated after years of continued overcapacity, the Pentagon’s top industrial policy official said recently. “We are looking at […]

Derco Aerospace, a Sikorsky [UTX] Aerospace Services company, said July 21 that it had signed an agreement with Alliant Techsystems [ATK] to distribute its AAR-47 Missile and Laser Warning System […]

By Marina Malenic LONDON–Raytheon‘s [RTN] plan to build a new missile facility in Huntsville, Ala., could contribute to a booming aerospace sector on the Gulf Coast, officials from the state […]

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has shipped the STPSat-2 satellite built for the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Development and Test Wing (SDTW) to Alaska’s Kodiak Launch […]

LaBarge, Inc. [LB] has received a $4.9 million contract from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to continue to produce complex wiring harnesses for the Atlas V launch vehicle. “For the past […]

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) radar built by Raytheon [RTN] performed successfully in the latest integrated THAAD flight test, the company said recently. “This test again demonstrates the […]

By Emelie Rutherford Key lawmakers and the White House signaled support last week for moving forward with building space technologies based on NASA’s Constellation manned-spaceflight program, which President Barack Obama […]