Space

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 […]

By Marina Malenic Top leaders of NASA last week defended President Barrack Obama’s Fiscal 2011 agency budget from criticism that jobs will be lost if Congress agrees to terminate the […]

By Marina Malenic The Army’s Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program’s five critical technologies are fully mature ahead of a scheduled Critical Design Review (CDR) in August, congressional auditors […]

ATK [ATK] has been awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build the A2100 satellite bus structures for the next- generation Global Positioning System, or GPS III. The first […]

Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] multi-purpose AGM114R HELLFIRE II missile scored another success in its second proof-of-principle (POP) flight test, the first armed with a live warhead, the company said Thursday. “This […]

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 […]

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 […]

ManTech International Corporation [MANT] said last week that it was awarded a prime contract worth a potential $160 million to provide system engineering and integration services to support current and […]

MBDA last week announced it is in the process of freezing the final definition of the MPCV (Multi Purpose Combat Vehicle) in readiness for its series production. MBDA is jointly […]

By Marina Malenic The Pentagon remains firmly committed to a tri-national air defense development program with two NATO allies despite systemic cost growth and Army officials’ attempts to kill the […]