Government/Military

[Satellite Today 12-16-08] The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP), a risk reduction mission for NPOESS, will be the first major element of the next generation...

Space Industry Sales Seen Gaining 4.4 Percent This Year, Easing To 2.1 Percent Next Year Obama Urged To Refrain From Cutting Aerospace, Defense Program Funding The U.S. missile industry continued...

[Satellite Today 12-15-08] DataPath has been awarded a pair of delivery orders to manufacture and install Ku-band satellite communications hubs in support of U.S. Central Command and the U.S. Marine...

Costs, Options For Reducing Gap Between Shuttles, Orion, Detailed In NASA Study The Constellation Program won’t cut the size of the Orion space capsule, or crew exploration vehicle, as a...

The Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, which predicted a WMD terrorist attack likely will occur by 2013, focused on weapons of mass destruction rather than possible...

SA-20s Wouldn’t Threaten F-22 Raptors, But Perhaps Would Imperil F-35s, B-2s Russia is selling highly sophisticated SA-20 long-range air defense missiles to Iran, weapons that wouldn’t endanger super-stealthy F-22 Raptor...

Space Shuttle Endeavour, having earlier completed a 16-day mission that improved the International Space Station, finally made it back home to Kennedy Space Center, riding piggyback atop a modified Boeing...

The Navy fired seven Standard Missile-2 Block IIIA anti-air warfare missiles as part of ongoing U.S. Navy shipbuilder trials and operational tests, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. Four of the intercepts...

Updated — December 12, 2008 – 3:45 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Jan. 30 * Mission: OCO...

An Air Strike By A Threatened Israel May Be Last Chance To Stop Iran No Chance Seen For U.S. Strike On Iranian Nuclear Facilities Iran is on the verge of...