Space

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 […]

By Emelie Rutherford 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 […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Boeing [BA] Aug. 10 successfully completed the Airborne Laser’s (ABL) first in-flight test against an instrumented boosting target missile, achieving a […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Aug. 11 broke ground on two new facilities that will cost some $24 million at its Space Systems Company operations in Newtown, Pa., that will support […]

By Calvin Biesecker Raytheon [RTN] yesterday unveiled a new focal plane array that it says is four times larger that infrared detectors currently in production and will provide major advances […]

By Emelie Rutherford The panel reviewing NASA’s human-spaceflight equipment and missions for President Obama could lay out options for continuing to develop Ares launch vehicles and using them with alternatives […]

By Ann Roosevelt 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 […]

The Air Force has accepted the second Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-2) payload and ground system modifications for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), prime contractor Lockheed Martin LMT] said last […]

The Air Force this fall will select either Northrop Grumman NOC] or Raytheon RTN] in the competition for the Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Control Segment (OCX) […]

The Navy and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) last week conducted another successful ballistic missile defense (BMD) test, which included the first of four events planned for this year to […]