Space

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) said recently it delivered the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Communication Unit to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch on […]

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 […]