Space

Adding some momentum to what has been a slumbering market in mergers and acquisition in the aerospace and defense industry, ATK [ATK] and Orbital Sciences [ORB] on Tuesday announced a […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) wants to refly its Falcon 9v1.1 first stage sometime in 2015 if it is able to land the stage on land by the end of […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is suing the Air Force in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to compel the service to compete its massive sole sourced, non-competed award of […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is changing its schedule for receiving the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine from an annual shipment to twice-per-year, according to a company spokeswoman. ULA spokeswoman Jessica Rye […]

The Air Force is looking at future types of precision, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies in case its access to its Global Positioning System (GPS) signal is denied or the […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT], which along with Raytheon [RTN] is gunning for the Air Force’s multi-billion dollar Space Fence contract, expects a contract to be awarded by the end of May, […]

The Defense Department and commercial satellite communication (COMSATCOM) providers continue to disagree over how the service should handle future acquisition policy in an era of declining defense spending. A focal […]

The Defense Department cited the 36 core “block buy” contract award to incumbent United Launch Alliance (ULA) for a 4.3 percent drop in program costs in the Air Force’s Evolved […]

Space Exploration Technology Corp.’s (SpaceX) Dragon space capsule successfully berthed with the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday at 10:06 a.m. EDT, the company said on its website. The berthing was […]

A problem with a communications satellite built for Spain’s HISPASAT S.A. and inserted into orbit last month led Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] on Thursday to report lower net income and […]