Space

By Emelie Rutherford Even after President Barack Obama signs the NASA policy bill into law, contracts with industry for the soon-defunct Constellation program will continue because Congress has not yet […]

By Marina Malenic The Air Force last month awarded Raytheon [RTN] $34.4 million to continue design work on the AGM-65E2/L laser-guided Maverick missile, the newest variant of the Maverick, company […]

Sea Viper, the Royal Navy’s groundbreaking new air defense missile, has been fired from a Type 45 Destroyer for the first time, the Ministry of Defence confirmed Oct 6. Sea […]

By Marina Malenic TUCSON, Ariz.–The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $175 million contract for development of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, slated for deployment in 2018 […]

By Emelie Rutherford President Barack Obama is poised to sign into law a NASA policy bill that would build on work done on the Orion crew capsule and support imminent […]

Boeing [BA] and its teammate Ball Aerospace Sept. 27 said they have acquired initial on-orbit signals from the first Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite following its launch at 9:41 […]

Raytheon [RTN] last week said it completed the 1,000th Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical (GEM-T) upgrade for the Army. “This low-cost alternative makes it possible for our partner nations to increase […]

NASA said recently that the Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Alliant Techsystems [ATK] Athena Launch Vehicle Family has been selected to become part of the agency’s Launch Services II contract. “We […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently demonstrated the second generation of its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capability in a formal U.S. Navy test event. “This milestone represents the continuing evolution of […]

By Ann Roosevelt The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) pending in the Senate calls for tougher, “eyes on” verification, a senior State Department official said. “This treaty…has a more […]