Space

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $23 million undefinitized with firm fixed price contract for production of 70 Maverick Missiles and a guidance and control section. A unit […]

The Ares I-X rocket is taking shape even as President Obama is considering killing the Ares I program in favor of using an existing military rocket, ignoring protests from space […]

GMD System Operations And Sustainment At Stake; Missile Defense Agency Contract Sought Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will take on The Boeing Co. [BA] in a fight for an operations and […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is disbanding the Space Enterprise Council that it fostered more than eight years ago. No public press release announcement of the switch was made by […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] and the Army will cooperate on processing sensor data for missile defense and space situational awareness, the company announced. They launched a joint research-and-development effort to […]

International Launch Services (ILS) will orbit the AsiaSat 5 satellite in the July-September quarter, ILS announced. Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) signed a contract with ILS to launch the […]

Arianespace postponed launching an Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket that is to carry the Herschel space telescope and Planck observatory to space, the company and the European Space Agency (ESA) […]

International Launch Services (ILS) will launch the ViaSat-1satellite on an ILS Proton rocket, under a new contract, ILS announced. Space Systems Loral is building the ViaSat satellite, which is to […]

Fuel Line Problems Finally Yield To Probe By Experts; Shuttle Flight Is Safe With No Foam Insulation Problems Seen Discovery Set To Reenter, Land On March 28 And we have […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, conducted a full mission duration firing of its new Merlin Vacuum engine, the company announced. That test, at the SpaceX Test Facility in McGregor, […]