Space

Defense spending on weapons systems may not plummet in the next several years, despite some pundits asserting that huge federal budget deficits, an imploding economy and nosediving federal revenues mean […]

Congress enacted a research and development tax credit extension that the aerospace industry had sought, a measure that was included in a larger bill to bail out portions of the […]

Some analysts and observers, who assert that certain especially dangerous military actors in Iran don’t really represent government views and motives, are dead wrong, a new paper states. In fact, […]

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft will launch Oct. 19 from Kwajalein Atoll on a mission to study the heliopause boundary between the solar system and open galactic space, […]

Space Shuttle Discovery may take the place of Space Shuttle Endeavour in performing standby life-guard duty when Space Shuttle Atlantis blasts off to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis was […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) and European companies have now set the launch of the GOCE satellite for Oct. 27, ESA announced. On Sept. 7, preparations for launch of GOCE […]

Updated — September 29 – 2:20 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: October + Mission: TacSat-3 Launch Vehicle: […]

NASA Gives Boeing $650 Million Contract Change For Space Station Support NASA awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. [BA] to continue engineering support of the […]

Russia is delivering 18 more Smerch multiple rocket launch systems to India, RIA Novosti reported. Rosoboronexport is working under a deal with India reached when the Russian defense minister visited […]

Palin Says Iranian Leader ‘Not Sane,’ And Iranian Nuclear Weapons Would Threaten The Existence Of Israel The two rival vice presidential candidates agreed in a debate that Iran would be […]