Space
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SpaceSenate Weighs NASA Funding; Pols Want Stimulus Money For Space Agency
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate is weighing a NASA spending bill that nearly matches the White House’s request for space exploration, just as a growing chorus of lawmakers is calling […]
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CongressSenate NASA Vote Nears; Pols Want Stimulus Money For Space Agency
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate is set to pass a NASA spending bill this week that nearly matches the White House’s request for space exploration, just as a growing chorus […]
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SpaceEMS Demonstrates Low-profile X-Band Antenna over Skynet 5C Satellite
EMS Defense & Space (D&S), a division of EMS Technologies, announced recently that it has successfully demonstrated high data-rate transmission of its new X-band satellite terminal over the U.K. military […]
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SpaceJapan and Lockheed Martin Test PAC-3
Airmen of the Japanese Self Defense Force and Lockheed Martin [LMT] successfully conducted the second Japanese PAC-3 Missile flight test recently at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. “This test success […]
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SpaceNSS-12 Satellite Preparing For Ariane 5 Launch
SES WORLD SKIES recently said that its NSS-12 satellite safely arrived at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, onboard an Antonov cargo plane, in preparation for launch onboard an […]
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SpaceNorthrop Grumman-built LCROSS Satellite Impacts Moon
Astronomers and space enthusiasts worldwide cheered as the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) successfully impacted the moon’s Cabeus crater Oct. 9, according to Northrop Grumman [NOC], which built […]
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SpaceSenate NASA Vote Nears; Pols Want Stimulus Money For Space Agency
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate is set to pass a NASA spending bill this week that nearly matches the White House’s request for space exploration, just as a growing chorus […]
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SpaceDelta II Launch Successful From Vandenberg AFB
Vandenberg Oct. 8 successfully launched from Space Launch Complex-2 a Delta II carrying WorldView-2, a high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite now in polar orbit, the Air Force said. “There really is nothing […]
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SpacePentagon, Obama Officials Promote New Missile Defense Plan
By Marina Malenic A new plan for missile defense deployment in Europe relies on proven capabilities and is much more flexible in the face of a changing threat environment than […]
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SpaceATK and NASA Team Complete Successful Ares I Main Parachute Drop-Test
Alliant Techsystems [ATK], the prime contractor for the first stage of the Ares I launch vehicle, along with NASA, the Army, and United Space Alliance (USA), successfully conducted the third […]