Space

John Shannon Becomes New Shuttle Program Manager, After Serving As Hale’s Deputy For Two Years N. Wayne Hale, who has served as the space shuttle program manager during some of […]

Taiwan Should Join With U.S. Forces To Mount Missile Defense, Create Anti-Submarine Warfare Capabilities Against China Report Finds Free Taiwan Critical To U.S. Military, Other Interests The United States must […]

China Is The Last To Carp About U.S. Anti-Satellite Operation, Analyst Says Pentagon Today Announces ASAT Shot Succeeded In Destroying Hydrazine Fuel Tank A coming wave of criticism — assailing […]

Russian Firm Gazcom To Launch Two Satellites In First Half Of 2009 Gazcom, the Russian firm, will launch two Yamal-300 satellites in the first half of next year, according to […]

Boeing Gains $77 Million Pact For LAIRCM Laser Tracker Gear The Air Force gave the McDonnell Douglas Corp. unit of The Boeing Co. [BA] a $77 million contract change for […]

The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense D-Day. Mark the calendar. Put the Air Force acquisition shop on speed-dial. The Defense Acquisition Board meets today to […]

By Dave Ahearn Engineers are moving toward a solution for the thrust oscillation problems that threaten to cause severe vibration in the Ares rocket for the next-generation U.S. space system, […]

Raytheon [RTN] will head a team of companies and universities to pursue a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series known as the GOES-R […]

By Dave Ahearn The Navy Wednesday night obliterated a nonfunctional intelligence satellite using the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Aegis weapon control system and a Raytheon [RTN] Standard Missile-3 fired from a […]