Space

International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, successfully carried the Intelsat 16 satellite to orbit for Intelsat S.A., the […]

International Launch Services (ILS) and global satellite operator SES Feb. 11 announced the ILS Proton launch of the SES-3 satellite with the Kazsat-2 telecommunications satellite in 2011. “ILS and SES […]

Space Shuttle Endeavour successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center early Feb. 8, marking the first flight of 2010 and the beginning of the Shuttle’s final year of operation. During […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received an Air Force contract valued at $243.5 million for an eighth production lot of the JASSM cruise missile. “This contract enables Lockheed Martin to continue […]

Italian Air Force Brig. Gen. Alessandro Pera Feb. 1 took over as the new head of the Active Layered Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (ALTBMD) Program Office, succeeding retired Brig. Gen. […]

By Emelie Rutherford NASA leaders argued Feb. 1 President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel the Constellation program would not hamper human spaceflight, as lawmakers whose states’ economies are linked to […]

By Ann Roosevelt Missile defenses would receive $9.9 billion under the administration’s fiscal year 2011 budget request released Feb. 1, including $8.4 billion for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Boeing […]

By Emelie Rutherford NASA leaders argued yesterday President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel the Constellation program would not hamper human spaceflight, as lawmakers whose states’ economies are linked to the […]

By Emelie Rutherford Florida, Alabama, and Texas lawmakers are girding for a battle over NASA’s future this week following word President Barack Obama today will recommend canceling the Constellation program […]

Space shuttle Endeavour is set to begin a 13-day flight to the International Space Station with a Feb. 7 launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is planned […]