Space

Cuts Or Development Stretch-Out Would Come Just As ABL Program Has Been Performing Well Slashing $1 billion out of ballistic missile defense, with cuts aimed at programs that kill enemy […]

The backshell that will protect the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) when it blasts off for space was delivered to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena, Calif., Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] […]

Enemies could inflict severe damage on the United States and its allies in an attack on American space assets, experts said. U.S. leaders need to begin deciding now how to […]

Mobil Satellite Technologies is obtaining capacity on Intelsat Ltd. satellites. Under a multi-year contract, Intelsat will provide Mobil with satellite capacity. The network operator and communications provider will expand its […]

The Department of Defense Saturday decided to delay the Transformational Satellite System (TSAT) contract that was to be awarded in December, putting it off until the June- September quarter in […]

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a pulsar, a dead star, that pulses with gamma rays, NASA announced. That will permit scientists to learn more about how such collapsed […]

NASA faces increasing chances that it will lose priceless scientific data and discoveries that it otherwise could have gathered during a third of a year, because a glitch on Sept. […]

The Department of Defense should shift its procurement programs from a heavy emphasis on containing costs, and stress instead maintaining schedules, a new report states. Costs have risen, and schedules […]

President Bush signed into law a $20.2 billion NASA authorization bill, a measure that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin welcomed because it endorses the long-term goal of moving beyond low Earth […]

Spacecraft Will Remain In Orbit For 45-Day Systems Checkout, Then Head Off To Edge Of Solar System The Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll […]