Space

By Marina Malenic A NATO air and missile defense development effort has shown sufficient technological maturity to proceed into its systems integration and flight-testing phases, the system’s manufacturer said last […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] successfully identified and tracked four live targets during a test of its Multi-Mission Signal Processor (MMSP) being fielded as part of the Aegis next-generation Ballistic Missile Defense […]

By Marina Malenic Boeing [BA] said last week the Air Force has authorized $182 million for the company to begin work on the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite, which […]

By Emelie Rutherford NASA officials stressed recently that they want ample competition as well as space industry investment in their effort to help private U.S. companies develop systems to carry […]

By Marina Malenic Seeking to trim costs under Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ efficiency initiative, the Missile Defense Agency is examining the possibility of opening tens of billions of dollars worth […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it added some 11 companies to its team in the pursuit of the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract. MDA […]

The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite built by Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the Air Force was successfully launched Aug. 14 from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas V rocket […]

By Marina Malenic The Air Force has implemented corrective actions associated with a Minotaur IV rocket software problem and now expects a September launch of the Space Based Space Surveillance […]

The first GPS IIF satellite is in its designated orbital position and ready for its final phase of on-orbit checkout and testing, officials from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s […]

Kuwait is requesting an approximately $900 million Foreign Military Sale to buy Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile-T (GEM-T) missiles, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress Aug. 10. Kuwait requested […]