Space

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] submitted a bid for the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) competition, the company announced today. The firm leads one of two […]

Congressman Says Both Lawmakers And General Public Must Be Mobilized NASA is facing major money trouble, but one solution may lie in the agency itself: the wow factor of the […]

Developing, Deploying Solid-State Laser Could Take About 10 Years: Estimate Technical Hurdles To Lasers Surmountable, But Non-Technical Barriers Must Be Bested The United States faces a grim threat of rogue […]

Uphill Fight Seen To Reverse Gates Missile Defense Cutbacks Attempting to use Navy ships with Aegis weapon control systems and Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors to defend allied nations from Iranian […]

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has uttered multiple erroneous statements about the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) missile defense system that he wants to abolish, a noted military analyst said. Gates […]

Lawmakers in both political parties are highly worried about the stability of the Pakistani government, and skeptical of President Obama’s plan to pour an annual $1.5 billion in aid into […]

President Obama is considering whether to name retired Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., 62, a former astronaut, as the first black NASA administrator. Bolden would succeed Michael […]

VIIRS Thermal Vacuum Tests Among Advances NASA Gives Northrop CERES Sensor Contract Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] completed the initial step toward the critical design review (CDR) for the National Polar-orbiting […]

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft will launch next week with three space travelers — a Russian, a Japanese and a Canadian — who will initiate the first six-person crew aboard the […]

Arianespace launched the Herschel-Planck satellites atop an Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket, rising from the European spaceport in French Guiana, South America. That liftoff came after two postponements. The two […]