Space

Lockheed Martin [LMT] Wednesday announced that the second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-2) payload and associated ground systems have been certified for missile warning operations by […]

Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off Aug. 28 from Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on a 13-day mission to deliver more than seven tons of supplies, science racks and environmental hardware to […]

NASA’s next generation of a manned-spacecraft made a stop at Holloman AFB, N.M., on its way to White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), N.M. where launch abort tests will be performed, […]

By Emelie Rutherford A blue-ribbon panel’s final report to President Obama on NASA’s future, which casts doubt on the viability of the Constellation program, will likely not be released quite […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Boeing [BA] and its industry teammates on Aug. 18 successfully fired the high-energy laser aboard the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft, "the first […]

Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Space Systems Co. yesterday announced employment reductions of about 800 aimed at "right-sizing" the company and improving its competitive posture. Space Systems will implement a broad-based workforce […]

Raytheon [RTN] last week unveiled a new focal plane array that it says is four times larger that infrared detectors currently in production and will provide major advances in space-based […]

The last in a series of eight modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellites built by Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the U.S. Air Force was successfully launched today […]

A panel finalizing a report on alternatives for future NASA human spaceflight has decided on four options it will present the White House, with only one of those scenarios calling […]

ATK [ATK], prime contractor on the Ares I rocket that will loft the Orion space capsule into orbit, maintains the program cost, schedule and technical performance are on track, as […]