Space

Wind River last week said that NASA has selected its VxWorks 653 as the real-time operating system for the flight and command computers in the Ares I and Ares V […]

General Dynamics [GD] Advanced Information Systems has been awarded a three-year contract potentially worth $100 million by Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to produce integrated circuits for the Navy’s Trident II […]

Completing an incredible year in which it launched 16 successful missions, United Launch Alliance capped 2009 with the launch of a Delta II carrying NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) […]

Orbital Sciences Corporation [ORB] recently said that Alliant Techsystems [ATK] and the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) successfully ground tested the second stage rocket motor of the company’s […]

By Marina Malenic NASA recently announced that it is considering two significant procurement actions in the area of commercial reusable suborbital spaceflight services. The agency “is requesting technical and programmatic […]

Arianespace recently has marked a historic milestone with the arrival of its first two Soyuz launchers in French Guiana, which will be used to inaugurate service with this medium-lift workhorse […]

Finmeccanica‘s SELEX Galileo has been awarded a $39.2 million contract for the supply of SM-1S radar seekers for a Middle East customer. The award comes as part of an MBDA […]

By Ann Roosevelt Northrop Grumman [NOC] Dec. 3 expressed its continued interest in the potential five- to 10-year, $600 million, Missile Defense Agency (MDA) competitive acquisition for development and sustainment […]

Key government space agencies Dec. 3 agreed on a new set of mission assurance principles that they say will lead to improved launch success. “With the strategic intent and a […]

Arianespace‘s wrap-up Ariane 5 flight of 2009 has entered final preparations for its liftoff this week with France’s Helios 2B military observation satellite. This seventh launch of the year is […]