Space

By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently announced it hit the target in two tests featuring Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR) guided rockets launched from an airborne OH-58D Kiowa Warrior […]

Teal Group Corp. announced recently it has revised upward its Worldwide Mission Model of future space payloads with 2,229 payloads proposed for launch to earth or lunar orbits or deep […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] last Friday said it has completed its $55 million purchase of the spacecraft development and manufacturing business from General Dynamics [GD]. Orbital announced the deal early […]

International Launch Services (ILS) and Telesat recently announced a contract for the ILS Proton launch of Telesat’s Nimiq 6 satellite scheduled for mid-2012. “ILS has a longstanding history with Telesat […]

By Marina Malenic NASA said recently that it has received “excellent response” from the commercial reusable suborbital spaceflight industry to a request for information (RFI) released in December. The agency […]

By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon officials are studying how President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel NASA’s Constellation spaceflight program would impact the military’s solid-rocket-motor efforts. The White House’s fiscal year 2011 […]

By Marina Malenic Lockheed Martin [LMT] and ATK [ATK] March 25 announced a teaming agreement to manufacture a modernized Athena rocket that could support both civil and military space launches. […]

SES ASTRA on Friday said that the launch of its new ASTRA 3B satellite has been postponed due to an anomaly that occurred in a launcher subsystem. The launch service […]

GenCorp‘s [GY] Aerojet and the Air Force conducted a successful static test of Aerojet’s Advanced Third Stage (A3S) technology demonstration motor in support of the U.S. Family of Motors for […]

By Marina Malenic Northrop Grumman [NOC] executives last week reaffirmed plans to bid for a Pentagon contract for sustainment of the country’s silo-based missile defense system and said they are […]