Space

Raytheon [RTN] and Aerojet [GY] completed a kinetic warhead system integration test for Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB, Raytheon said. The test verified the ability of the warhead to detect, […]

Orbital Sciences [ORB] successfully launched a classified satellite aboard a Minotaur I rocket from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., on Feb. 6, the company said. The payload is owned by the National […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently said it received a $339.6-million contract option from the Navy for the fifth satellite in the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) constellation. MUOS will replace the […]

By Carlo Munoz The United States is evaluating possible options for an international arms control policy for space, which will be one element in a larger plan to develop a […]

Orbit-raising activities for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite (AEHF-1) are going according to plan, according to Air Force officials. Shortly after the launch last August, the plan […]

The United States and France signed documents at the Pentagon Feb. 8 to address national security space issues, particularly to monitor space debris. This is the first time the U.S. […]

Teams led Lockheed Martin [LMT]-Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA]-Northrop Grumman [NOC] last week submitted proposals for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract to the Missile Defense Agency’s […]

Raytheon [RTN] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] have each received a $107 million contract for preliminary design of a next- generation tracking radar that will monitor objects in space. Under the […]

Air Force Space and Missile Command (SMC), along with industry counterparts at Northrop Grumman [NOC] plan to have a contract in place for the service’s new defense weather satellite system […]

Raytheon [RTN] last week said it received a $145 million Foreign Military Sales production contract for Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missiles-Tactical (GEM-T) to augment Kuwait’s air and missile defense. The U.S. […]