Space

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. […]

Lawmakers are trying to stop NASA from spending more money on the dismantled Constellation program and pushing back at the space agency’s claim that it can’t build a new heavy- […]

The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said it has delayed a repeat attempt to destroy a target missile using a chemical laser integrated into a Boeing [BA] 747 aircraft. The […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s first service-built and operated satellite in 50 years exceeded expectations during its short orbital life that is expected to end by burning up while reentering […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said that the satellite command and control system–the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Ground System Architecture– recently went operational with the successful launch of the multi-payload experimental Space […]

By Emelie Rutherford The policy-setting defense authorization law President Barack Obama signed recently calls for the Pentagon to work to expand the defense-industrial base and consider securing the rights to […]

By Carlo Munoz A new ground variant of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] premiere ballistic missile defense system could be in place in Eastern Europe by 2015, as part of the Obama […]

The Army proposes $29 billion in cost savings over five years, including termination of the Surface Launched Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM) and Non-Line of Sight Launch System (NLOS- LS) […]

GeoEye recently said that it had won a contract from Maldives for a fisheries management and safety vessel monitoring system. As part of the deal, GeoEye will supply 10 Osprey […]