Space

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has proposed a budget plan that will leave the U.S. military weaker, precisely as the Chinese military is growing stronger. And the Sino military already […]

Israel aims to purchase the Raytheon Co. [RTN] Vulcan-Phalanx close-in air defense systems to kill rockets and mortars launched into Israel by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to […]

NOAA Roasted In House, Senate, On Satellite Oversight Woes Afflicting Costs, Schedules Of Both GOES-R, NPOESS Programs The GOES-R satellite program cost estimates jumped again, to $7.67 billion from an […]

Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.) urged Congress to drop the Sept. 30, 2010, retirement deadline for the space shuttle fleet. She also asked for $2.5 billion funding for NASA to keep […]

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, Senate minority whip, spoke before a National Defense University Foundation and National Defense Industrial Association breakfast in Washington at the Capitol Hill Club April 21, […]

The Airborne Laser missile defense system has begun flight tests with the entire weapon system integrated aboard the aircraft, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Boeing, the prime ABL contractor, contributed […]

Other Launches Also Are Juggled Space Shuttle Atlantis will lift off at 2:01 p.m. ET May 11 from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, a day earlier than planned, […]

China launched another of its COMPASS navigational satellites, in a constellation of birds that eventually will provide global-wide navigational signals much like the U.S. Global Positioning Satellites (GPS), Xinhua, the […]

Griffin Concerned Future Is Bleak The Obama White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing a $3.5 billion NASA budget cut that would hurt the Constellation Program developing […]

Updated — April 24, 2009 – 3:30 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: May 5 Mission: STSS ATRR […]