Space

By Ann Roosevelt Japan and the U.S. Missile Defense agency (MDA) Oct. 28 announced the successful intercept flight test of an Aegis Ballistic Missile (BMD) in cooperation with the U.S. […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1 billion contract for continued development and evolution of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System, the company […]

SES WORLD SKIES on Oct. 29 announced that the NSS-12 satellite successfully roared into space on-board an Ariane 5 ECA booster from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Approximately […]

The telescope element of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by Northrop Grumman [NOC], has successfully passed a critical design review verifying it will perform as designed, and now […]

Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] new multi-functional AGM-114R HELLFIRE II missile scored a direct hit during its first proof-of-principle (POP) flight test recently at Eglin Air Force Base, FL. “The multi-functional HELLFIRE […]

Raytheon [RTN] was recently awarded two contracts worth in excess of $100 million by Israel’s Rafael to design and develop the David’s Sling Weapon System. The DSWS is a joint […]

By Marina Malenic The United States should put more of its military space budget toward creating greater redundancy in its proven space systems, rather than counting on next-generation capabilities that […]

By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] and the Navy successfully flight tested the extended range variant of the Joint Stand Off Weapon (JSOW ER) earlier this month off the California coast, […]

The third Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-3) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [LMT] to provide significantly improved navigation capabilities for military and civilian users worldwide, has […]

ITT [ITT] announced Nov. 2 that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan’s largest satellite manufacturer, has selected ITT Space Systems to build the imaging systems for two geostationary satellites being built for […]