Space

The Mars rover to be launched in 2011 will be called Curiosity. A NASA panel selected the name following a nationwide student contest that attracted more than 9,000 proposals via […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] gained $37.3 million in a trade secrets lawsuit against L-3 Communications Corp. [LLL] and its unit L-3 Communications Integrated Systems Inc. That suit was aired in […]

A Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] subsidiary settled a patent infringement lawsuit. Terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed, except that the Lockheed unit, Savi Technology, Inc., termed it "favorable." Savi contended […]

Crew Rehearsal For Flight Delayed Two Days; Weather Might Mandate One-Month Delay In Endeavour Launch From Kennedy Space Shuttle Endeavour yesterday rolled from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center […]

Hubble Space Telescope Mission A Huge Success; Orbiting Observatory Now Better Than Ever With New Sensors Space Shuttle Atlantis is headed for Kennedy Space Center, riding atop a Boeing 747 […]

The Sirius FM-5 satellite and its Russian Proton M rocket were delivered separately to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to International Launch Services (ILS). After passing through customs, the […]

Need For 44 Ground-based Midcourse Interceptors Was Not Based On Sound Analysis, O’Reilly Says European Missile Defense Fiscal 2010 Budget Weak Because Legal Curbs Won’t Permit Spending More Than $51 […]

One of NASA’s two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater. The Mars rover, Opportunity, surveyed the […]

While President Obama is praiseworthy for adding funds to the NASA budget for the next fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010, the space agency still is sorely underfunded, including the […]

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 […]