Author: Staff Writer

NASA Still Undecided On Atlantis Launch Date, Tank Switch NASA officials won’t be able to decide for another two weeks whether they can repair and use a hail-damaged external fuel...

If Fleet Street rumors prove correct, BSkyB is headed for a four-way battle for Pipex Communications, a major player among the United Kingdom’s telecoms market. With nearly 1.1 million fixed...

The March 19 announcement that CIP Canada Investment Inc. would acquire Stratos Global Corp., the largest distributor of Inmarsat services, in a deal funded in part by Inmarsat, has clouded...

Even though the second demonstration flight of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)’s Falcon 1 failed to reach orbit and was presumed lost at sea only moments after its launch from Kwajalein...

Democratic and Republican members of both the House and Senate lavishly and repeatedly praised NASA Administrator Michael Griffin for his excellent leadership of the space agency, but the legislators were...

NASA could accelerate its Constellation program to get Americans back on the moon sooner than now planned, so as to beat the Chinese in their drive toward a manned mission...

The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system worked well in its first in-flight test of the laser targeting system, the Missile Defense Agency reported. In the test Thursday,...

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), the House Armed Services Committee chairman, proposed a bill to reform defense contracting. It would curb use of sole source contracts while encouraging use of fixed-price...

Potential budget cuts for the next two years in the United States portion of funding for the U.S., German and Italian-funded Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) air defense missile...