Space

John Shannon Becomes New Shuttle Program Manager, After Serving As Hale’s Deputy For Two Years N. Wayne Hale, who has served as the space shuttle program manager during some of […]

Taiwan Should Join With U.S. Forces To Mount Missile Defense, Create Anti-Submarine Warfare Capabilities Against China Report Finds Free Taiwan Critical To U.S. Military, Other Interests The United States must […]

China Is The Last To Carp About U.S. Anti-Satellite Operation, Analyst Says Pentagon Today Announces ASAT Shot Succeeded In Destroying Hydrazine Fuel Tank A coming wave of criticism — assailing […]

Russian Firm Gazcom To Launch Two Satellites In First Half Of 2009 Gazcom, the Russian firm, will launch two Yamal-300 satellites in the first half of next year, according to […]

Raytheon [RTN] will head a team of companies and universities to pursue a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series known as the GOES-R […]

By Dave Ahearn The Navy Wednesday night obliterated a nonfunctional intelligence satellite using the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Aegis weapon control system and a Raytheon [RTN] Standard Missile-3 fired from a […]

Orbital, With Solid Cashflow, To Finance Major Portion of Spacecraft Development Cost Commercial Craft Would Help Fill Void Left By Space Shuttle Retirement In 2010 NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp. […]

Tank With Toxic Hydrazine Fuel Likely Destroyed Skeptics Question Whether Shootdown Was Necessary Bullseye. The Navy obliterated a nonfunctional intelligence satellite using the Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] Aegis weapon control […]

Ambitious Shuttle Missions Schedule Now Set For 2008 Space Shuttle Atlantis glided down to a perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center, where little damage was spotted on the orbiter vehicle […]

Going Directly To Mars, Without Moon Base, Would Be a Strategic Mistake, NASA Official Says Engineers are moving toward a solution for the thrust oscillation problems that threaten to cause […]