Space

BAE, Northrop Grumman Gain DHS Counter-MANPADS Pacts The Department of Homeland Security provided contracts to BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] to test systems mounted on airliners to defeat […]

Progress Cargo Vehicle Launched To Space Station A Russian Progress space freighter ship launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Dec. 23 on a supply mission to the International Space […]

Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser To Go Into Boeing 747 Aircraft The Airborne Laser (ABL) easily cleared each of its scheduled hurdles last year and now is poised for installation of […]

Report Says China Moving To Superpower Role As It Spends Almost 4 Percent Of GDP On Arms Chinese Industrial Output To Be 50 Percent Greater Than U.S. Production In Five […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] beat out Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. [BLL] to win an up-to $799.5 million avionics instrument unit contract for the Ares I upper stage rocket that […]

NASA Experts Still Seek Cause Of Sensor Data Snafu Tests Set For Tomorrow, May Unearth Problem In Sensors; Simultaneous Space Station Spacewalk To Examine SARJ NASA again postponed the launch […]

First Time An Ally Has Used Aegis/SM-3 In Ballistic Missile Defense Test The Japanese destroyer Kongo today employed its Aegis weapon control system to guide a Standard Missile-3 to destroy […]

India used its Akash interceptor to take out a flying target last week, according to news media reports. The news comes as India also is working to develop a long-range […]

China now has become a deep-space power, on the success of its lunar orbiter, Chinese President Hu Jintao said last week, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. This is […]