Space

By Geoff Fein GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY] last week said it has selected Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build the geospatial imagery company’s next- generation, high-resolution Earth imaging satellite system known as […]

By Calvin Biesecker ATK [ATK] Mar. 11 announced a realignment of its business groups, including the addition of a new one that will serve the law enforcement and sporting markets, […]

By Ann Roosevelt Raytheon [RTN] has submitted its average missile unit production price for the Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS), coming in at about a third the cost of a government […]

Paradigm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrium Services, has signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to extend and enhance the Skynet 5 private finance initiative (PFI) […]

By Marina Malenic The German government has launched a reevaluation of air defense alternatives ahead of a major design milestone for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), a next- […]

By Calvin Biesecker Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] recently said it has agreed to acquire the spacecraft development and manufacturing business of General Dynamics [GD] for $55 million, giving the company […]

MBDA announced the re-organization of its U.S.-based subsidiary, MBDA Inc. as a stand-alone national company. MBDA Inc.’s new U.S. headquarters and team are in place in Arlington, Va. The company […]

United Launch Alliance, on behalf of Boeing Launch Services, successfully launched the third of three next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) missions for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

Boeing [BA] announced Mar. 3 that the Air Force accepted control of the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite on March 1, after the spacecraft passed several weeks […]

By Geoff Fein GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY] yesterday said it has selected Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build the geospatial imagery company’s next- generation, high-resolution Earth imaging satellite system known as GeoEye-2, […]