Space

Orbital ATK [OA] is focusing on early December for its return to the International Space Station (ISS) after NASA contemplated moving the launch to October due to an uncertain cargo […]

NASA this week awarded Russia a contract modification for additional rides to the International Space Station (ISS) while the Senate passed a Commercial Space Launch bill that supports extending United […]

The Air Force and its contractors on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite constellation are performing so well the service wants to launch the fourth space vehicle early, according […]

The Air Force, at the moment, won’t decertify Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) from competing for military launches because the service doesn’t know if the company’s June 28 Falcon 9 […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) should pursue a combination of space-based and ground-based sensors to improve missile defense systems instead of favoring one or the other, according to an agency […]

Orbital ATK’s [OA] winning Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) proposal should have been rejected by NASA as unacceptable due to the company’s “dual use” spare parts plan, Ball Aerospace [BLL] […]

The head of Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (AFSMC) said Space Exploration Technology Corp.’s (SpaceX) Falcon Heavy rocket certification progress depends on what the company provides from its […]

The Santa Ana (Calif.) Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA) on Friday awarded a contract in excess of $1 million to analytics and imagery provider OmniEarth for water resource management, according to […]

The Air Force on Wednesday postponed its Wideband Global Satcom-7 (WGS-7) launch until Thursday, citing weather at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Launch is scheduled for 8:07 p.m. EDT. […]

The Air Force is negotiating with Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) prime contractor Boeing [BA] to add anti-jam capability to future WGS satellites, starting with the eighth spacecraft, according to an […]