Author: Staff Writer

A group of former Northrop Corp. engineers who worked on the Apollo moon landing program said exhaustive testing of failure causes, multiple redundancies in systems, and a driven desire to...

Congressional Democrats, as they criticize and cut budget funds for the U.S. ground-based midcourse missile defense (GMD) system planned for Europe, are playing into the hands of Russian President Vladimir...

The House approved a $30 million increase in funding for the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) to $117 million in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, the Aerospace Industries Association...

An intense and long-running summertime dust storm has imperiled the Mars Rover Opportunity and, to a lesser degree, its sister rover Spirit, NASA reported. The craft already have lasted more...

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Snares $1.2 Billion NASA Pact For Ares NASA gave Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Inc. a $1.2 billion sole source contract for work on the upper stage...

By Michael Sirak The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week will start the process of moving its nascent F6 satellite program forward by hosting an unclassified industry day...

The International Space Station (ISS) tested a new U.S. oxygen generating system capable of supporting a larger ISS crew, NASA announced. That system, tested between July 11 and 14, will...

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin named Michael Ryschkewitsch as chief engineer. He succeeds Christopher Scolese, whom Griffin selected as associate administrator. (Please see Space & Missile Defense Report, Monday, July 16,...

Scott J. “Doc” Horowitz, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, will leave NASA in October, he announced. A retired U.S. Air Force colonel who served as commander or...

The iGPS system has shown it is resistant to jamming by intentional enemy actions or by accidental interference, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. iGPS combines the Global Positioning System (GPS)...