Space

The number of potential prosecution cases against defense contractors fell 76 percent from fiscal 1993 to fiscal 2008, even as procurement spending roughly doubled to $400 billion in the fiscal […]

Assumptions: No One Would Dare Launch Missile At United States; Missile Defense Is Expensive Critics Say There Is No Complete Guarantee That Missile Defense Systems Will Work A House panel […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] paid $325 million to settle a whistleblower case involving faulty military satellite parts involving TRW Inc. before Northrop bought that company in 2002, while at the […]

Three panels of experts put down critics’ allegations that missile defense programs don’t work or have other shortcomings, allegations that are being used by some leaders in Washington to underpin […]

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a contract to upgrade guidance and control sections for the air-to-ground Maverick missile. "The military is successfully employing laser-guided Mavericks against moving targets […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN] will use the relatively low cost of the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) to help sell it to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Congress in […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) criticized several space programs on cost and other criteria. They were among many defense procurement programs that have run a combined total $296 billion over […]

Soyuz Lands Wednesday With Crew Space Shuttle Atlantis has arrived at Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., poised for a May 12 liftoff on the STS-125 Mission to […]

Arctic sea ice continues to shrink, according to NASA. The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend […]

NASA needs sufficient funding, and the financial support must be stable rather than riding a volatile roller coaster of peaks and valleys, an industry leader said. Otherwise, the American space […]