Space

Northrop Grumman [NOC] recently said it successfully completed the first test to demonstrate real-time cueing of the Airborne Infrared (ABIR) sensor for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) with the […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently announced that its new Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System-Plus (GMLRS+) extended-range rocket successfully completed a 120-kilometer mission at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., an improvement in […]

The Navy has extended a contract with Lockheed Martin [LMT] to continue maintaining the Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (TTWCS), a system that integrates the launch hardware and software to […]

The Air Force has completed developmental testing of the newest version of the laser-guided Maverick air-to-ground missile, paving the way for operational testing (OT), Raytheon [RTN] said recently. The latest […]

The Army wants information from industry for a Short Range Precision Strike System (SRPSS) that Special Operations Force personnel could use for precision engagements. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile […]

Raytheon [RTN] recently said a series of laboratory tests on the Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) tri-mode seeker demonstrated that it exceeds anticipated performance parameters. The SDB II’s seeker […]

Boeing [BA] recently said it has received the first on-orbit signals from the second of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites it is building for the Air Force. GPS […]

As NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis heads home for its final landing of the 30-year program this week, it’s fitting to consider that space is changing in fundamental ways, the deputy […]

The latest in a series of nanosatellites built by the Aerospace Corporation with support from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) Development Planning Directorate was deployed from the Space […]

The Defense Department and NASA need to set up a mechanism to periodically asses the condition of parts quality problems in major space and missile defense programs, including periodic reports […]