Space

Raytheon [RTN] Sept. 9 said it won the first of several planned low rate initial production (LRIP) contracts to build Standard Missile-6 systems for the Navy. “Standard Missile-6 has been […]

By B.C. Kessner NASA and ATK [ATK] Space Systems conducted a successful horizontal ground-firing test of the first stage of the Ares moon rocket Thursday at ATK’s facility in Promontory, […]

The initial passenger for Arianespace‘s fifth Ariane 5 mission of this year was delivered to French Guiana recently following a trans-Atlantic cargo flight from Europe and is undergoing initial checkout, […]

The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the Air Force has entered final testing at facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif., the company […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] Thursday said it has inaugurated the Electrical Engineering Model Test Bed (EEMTB), a critical tool that will reduce the risk associated with developing the spacecraft for the […]

GeoEye [GEOY], a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information and services, announced that it has signed a contract to extend its Service Level Agreement with the National Geospatial-Intelligence […]

By Marina Malenic A blue-ribbon panel’s final report on NASA’s future, which casts doubt on the viability of the Constellation moon mission, was delivered Sept. 8 to President Obama. The […]

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, on behalf of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Space Systems Company, successfully launched the PAN satellite Sept. 8 from Space Launch Complex- 41 as […]

Thales Alenia Space Sept. 8 said it signed a contract with Argentina’s ARSAT to supply the payload for the ARSAT-1 satellite, as part of the SSGAT (Sistema Satelital Geoestacionario Argentino […]

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. (EADS) Astrium recently announced a contract for a SpaceX Falcon 1e to launch an Earth observation satellite designed by […]