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Sen. Levin Urges Slowing Major BMD Programs, While Stressing Others Congress should slow and stretch out programs to create a multi-layered ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield, while emphasizing instead programs...

NASA can’t expect any huge funding increases, and instead will have to find areas to cut and ways to perform the space mission with more intelligence and efficiency, NASA Administrator...

The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has achieved “tremendous success” in the past year, Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry “Trey” Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency...

NASA chose for concept study development two proposals for future robotic missions to Mars. These missions would increase understanding of Mars’ atmosphere, climate and potential habitability in greater detail than...

New satellite operator ProtoStar has chosen Arianespace to launch the DTH satellite ProtoStar I. Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall announced the award during his annual January press conference, saying that...

Arianspace received the Skynet 5A military communications satellite for the first Ariane 5 launch mission this year, the company announced. The satellite arrived in French Guiana this week, with the...

The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system successfully passed a system critical design review (CDR) as the Air Force authorized the program to proceed toward a December 2008 launch, The...

General Dynamics Corp. [GD] received a $424.5 million contract from the Spanish Army for Long Range (LR) SPIKE Missile Systems. General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas, the prime contractor, has an...

The Navy gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $654.9 million contract to for system support for Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missiles in the current fiscal year 2007 ending Sept....

President Bush recently signed an Executive Order (EO) establishing the nation’s first Aeronautics Research and Development Policy. That EO was accompanied by release of a supporting policy document developed by...