Space

By Marina Malenic The Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has successfully completed a Final Integrated System Test of the first geosynchronous (GEO-1) satellite, verifying the spacecraft’s performance and functionality in […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently said it successfully launched an internally-developed Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Plus (GMLRS+) rocket in a test at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The GMLRS+ rocket, […]

Lenkflugkorpersyteme GmbH (LFK) (MBDA Deutschland) recently said it delivered the first Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) launcher to MEADS International as part of the U.S., German and Italian air […]

By Ann Roosevelt The first Army nanosatellite achieved lift off from Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Dec. 8 at 9:43 a.m. Eastern–the first Army-built satellite in more than […]

The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration program satellites, built by Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN], detected the test launch of a Minuteman III ICBM on Sept. 17 […]

Alliant Techsystems [ATK] awarded BAE Systems a $17.7 million contract to provide laser warning sensor sets to protect U.S. military aircraft, BAE said recently. “With more than 16,000 systems delivered […]

By Marina Malenic The Air Force is preparing to launch a second X-37 experimental space plane into low earth orbit after what service officials deemed a highly successful first flight […]

By B.C. Kessner The Lockheed Martin [LMT] team designing GeoEye‘s [GEOY] next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, successfully completed the program’s Preliminary Design Review (PDR) three weeks ahead of […]

By Marina Malenic Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification valued at approximately $1.4 billion for production of the Air Force’s fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite. […]

By B.C. Kessner The executive director of Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile System Center (SMC) said the vagaries of very ambitious satellite and terminal programs caused end dates […]