Space

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, completed thermal vacuum testing, NASA announced. Those tests simulate extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space that LRO will experience after launch. This […]

Hamas terrorists fired more than 3,000 rockets and mortars into Israel during the past year, which included a cease-fire period, according to the Israel Project, a Washington- based backer of […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the spacecraft bus subsystems for the emergent Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, Lockheed announced. It will be the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) satellite in the […]

The value of missile defense systems has been proven by the unending torrent of missiles that Hamas has launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip, a U.S. missile defense expert […]

A new report from a study panel details the causes leading to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, with the panel recommending many corrective and preventive moves to avert […]

Lockheed Decides To Use Ariane 5 Rocket To Launch Satellite For Japanese Operators In Liftoff From South American Spaceport Arianespace announced it will provide lift capability to orbit several satellites […]

An Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket lifted off from the spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, South America, to launch two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits. Those satellites were accurately […]

Russia launched three Glonass-M navigational satellites on a Proton robotic rocket that soared on Christmas from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Itar-Tass reported. That brings the total number of Glonass […]

A Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System’s Precision Attack Missile completed the third guided test flight for the weapon class. NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Co. [RTN] and Lockheed Martin Corp. […]

Updated — December 19, 2008 – 8:30 a.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Feb. 4 Mission: NOAA-N Prime […]