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Aegis, PAC-3, THAAD Gain The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) cut the Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) program and reduced funding for formation of a Ground-based Midcourse Defense...

North Korea fired several missiles from both its east and west coasts, according to NHK Online Daily News in Japan. The report said Japanese officials termed the weapons short-range missiles,...

Test To Be Reset For Summer; Congress Still Mulls European Site Just as Congress is weighing whether to cut funding for a Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) site in Europe, the...

The United States must deploy a defense against enemy ballistic missiles, because one cannot simply assume that no rogue state or terrorist group would ever fire a nuclear- tipped missile...

Administration witnesses before a congressional panel remained firm in insisting that the United States has a right to defend itself and its assets in space, and in rejecting proposals to...

The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee produced a Pentagon defense authorization bill that provides $60 million increased funding to aid partnership programs with Israel. First, the panel added $25 million...

The Constellation Program to develop a next-generation spacecraft for missions to the moon and Mars completed its half-year-long system requirements review, NASA announced. Constellation will include the Orion crew exploration...

John W. Douglass will retire as the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) president at the end of the year, AIA announced. Douglass has been a strong defender of and spokesman for...

The top bipartisan lawmakers on a key House panel may ask the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into a controversy surrounding NASA Inspector General Robert “Moose” Cobb....

China Within Months Of Launching Moon Orbiter China is poised to launch a moon orbiter vehicle that likely will lift off sometime in the July-December time frame, perhaps in September,...