Space

Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the crown jewel of Army medicine, celebrated its 100th anniversary Friday with a ceremony and a formal ball, but the celebration was bittersweet because the […]

The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $9 million contract addition for Patriot missile maintenance and facilities, bringing the total contract to $45 million thus far, with room for further […]

Needed: a huge vacuum cleaner that can roam around in low Earth orbit. While the danger of catastrophic collisions in space is rising steadily, cost and feasibility issues mean development […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN] named a Turkish missile manufacturer as an international supplier of a key component of the Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile- Tactical (GEM-T). Under the agreement, Roket Sanayii ve […]

Some 300,000 Pieces Of Space Junk Imperil Billions Of Dollars Worth Of Spacecraft; Exponential Risk Rise Seen Spacecraft operators later this year may gain access to better warnings of space […]

NASA is giving Jacobs Technology $200 million contract for manufacturing support and facilities operations contract at the Michoud Facility Assembly in New Orleans. Jacobs received a cost plus award fee, […]

For Fiscal 2008-2013, Cost Overruns Total Some $10.9 Billion For Satellites The Department of Defense (DOD) has a poor track record in its military satellites development efforts, the Government Accountability […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], the largest defense contractor receiving $34.2 billion in contracts in fiscal 2007, also led the pack in instances of misconduct, according to the Project on Government […]

United States Must Maintain Leadership In Space, Or Cede Primacy To Other Nations With Rival Ambitions, Report Says; Missile Defense Should Rise $2 Billion Yearly, To $12 Billion The concept […]

Aerojet, a GenCorp [GY] company, successfully completed the first series of vibration and altitude hot fire tests on the next-generation U.S. spaceship rocket engine. In the test, Aerojet checked the […]