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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden warned a Senate panel March 12 that commercial crew contractors Boeing [BA] and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) could miss their 2017 launch readiness deadlines if […]

NASA and Orbital ATK [OA] conducted the first qualification ground test of a five-segmented rocket motor planned to be used for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the company said on […]

The Air Force is developing plans to compete additional Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellites, starting with space vehicle 11, and hopes to have a request for proposals out around […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) successfully launched a Falcon 9 mission containing the EUTELSAT 115 West B and ABS-3A communications satellites March 1. The launch at Cape Canaveral Air Force […]

Rocket Lab on March 2 said it has completed a new round of financing with its existing investors and Bessemer Venture Partners and will receive a strategic investment from Lockheed […]

The first F-35A Lightning II assembled internationally was rolled out in Italy, Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on March 12. Final assembly of the aircraft took place at the Cameri Final […]

BAE Systems was awarded a $382 million in additional contract funding to finish the final phase of design work for a successor to the Royal Navy’s Vanguard-class submarines that carry […]

Cyber espionage attacks sponsored by nation-states are becoming more sophisticated as attackers differentiate their tools from traditional cyber criminals, according to the information technology security firm Kaspersky Labs. In response […]

General Dynamics [GD] and Thales Australia said March 11 they have signed a teaming memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the intention to submit a bid in response to the Land […]

Boeing [BA] and Saab AB are teaming on another project, this one a ground-based delivery system for Boeing’s Small Diameter Bomb (SDB), and the two companies say they’ve already successfully […]