Space

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 […]

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 […]

By Emelie Rutherford A senior Pentagon official told missile-defense contractors last week “quality control” of industry products is so poor it has risen to be one of the preeminent problems […]