Space

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne of United Technologies [UTX] recently announced that it has successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests on the certified RS-68A engine, the world’s most powerful hydrogen-fueled […]

NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe and the U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff of the Army sent letters supporting the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) “proof of concept” […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) recently approved full funding in the defense appropriations measure for fiscal year 2012 for a two- year “Proof of Concept” for the tri-national Medium Extended […]

Raytheon [RTN] and its German industry partner, RAMSYS, recently said they completed missile upgrades and integration testing as part of the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2 program. The partnership […]

NASA unveiled this week its plans to pay companies $1.6 billion to develop commercial services to carry astronauts to low-Earth orbit. The space agency released a draft request for proposals […]

NASA announced yesterday its intended design for a heavy-lift rocket that will to carry astronauts to Mars, appeasing lawmakers irked by a delay in the plan’s unveiling. The new rocket, […]

Raytheon [RTN] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] say they are on schedule to demonstrate their respective radar systems competing for the Air Force’s next contract for a new generation of space […]

To defend more citizens from rocket attack, Israel emplaced its third Iron Dome battery recently, the day before the nation’s two million children returned to school, the military said. The […]

The Navy’s first test of the advanced Standard Missile 3 Block 1B failed during a flight recently when the interceptor failed to hit its target over the Pacific Ocean, the […]

Teledyne Technologies Inc.’s [TDY] subsidiary Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc., recently said it was awarded a potential $595 million, five-year IDIQ contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for its Objective […]