Author: Staff Writer

[Satellite Today – 6-23-08] Com Dev International Ltd. will design, build and launch a micro-satellite for the government of Canada, the company announced June 23. Under the contract, valued at...

The Air Force completed an early on-orbit checkout of the second space based infrared systems (SBIRS) sensor. That craft is in a highly elliptical orbit (HEO) over the northern hemisphere....

NASA Awards $1.5 Billion Kennedy Space Center Contract NASA gave EG&G Technical Services Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., a contract worth up to $1.5 billion to provide institutional services at Kennedy...

The Phoenix Mars Lander, a miner for a heart of ice, has found what researchers say they are sure is frozen water on the fourth planet from the sun. Phoenix...

NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] test-fired a critical safety component for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, the future American spacecraft. Technicians fired a yard-long igniter for the abort motor...

Iran, as it continues to produce nuclear materials that might be used to assemble nuclear weapons, threatens to end Israel’s singular role as a nuclear-armed nation in the region, a...

The Missile Defense Agency will host a small business conference at Huntsville, Ala., next month. That event will be held July 21-22 at the Von Braun Center North Hall. Theme...

The unending woes of the over-budget, under-performing, behind-schedule National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) may have been inevitable even before the program began, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) indicated. Not...

Global demand for space-based capabilities will continue its rapid growth, and the U.S. government should aid U.S. industry as it seeks business overseas, a Commerce Department official said. Ed Morris,...

Interceptors in the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system can be deployed on time in 2013 if Congress provides sufficient funding, though any requirement that a test- article interceptor be...