Space

In a brilliant nighttime launch, a Delta II rocket from United Launch Alliance (ULA) blazed into a black sky over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to place the Kepler […]

Updated — March 6, 2009 – 12:10 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: March 6 Mission: Kepler Launch […]

The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] an $11.4 million contract to support Patriot missile defense facilities this year. The Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., issued the […]

Discovery Launch A Day Earlier Than Expected; NASA Likely Can Execute Its Five Planned Space Shuttle Missions This Year, On Schedule Satellites Colliding Raise Risk Of Catastrophic Damage To Space […]

Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, told NASA to turn over documents relating to a federal probe of a company that […]

Airborne Laser To Die As Well President Obama will enter a deal with the Russians where the United States will agree to drop or defer indefinitely plans for a European […]

Courtney Stadd, a former NASA official who left the agency, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly using a temporary NASA post he held later to help steer […]

Using sea-based Aegis weapon control systems and Standard Missiles to protect Europe from Iranian missile attacks would cost almost twice as much as the European Missile Defense (EMD) system proposed […]

A Navy logistics ship was named for former NASA astronaut Wally Schirra, with christening ceremonies yesterday in San Diego, General Dynamics Corp. [GD] stated. Schirra was a Navy captain who […]

The United States and Russia failed to agree on a plan to resolve a long-running dispute over U.S. plans to build the European Missile Defense (EMD) system against missiles launched […]