Author: Staff Writer

Lisa Marie Nowak, facing criminal charges in Florida, last week was dismissed as an astronaut, NASA announced. A Navy captain, Nowak will be given an assignment in the Navy, pending...

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite communications asset completed critical design reviews (CDRs) for all segments of the ground system as well as terminal waveform software, General Dynamics Corp....

Orbital Express Spacecraft Servicing Vehicle Launched The Orbital Express spacecraft launched at night from space launch complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., The Boeing Co. [BA] announced....

International Space Station crew members tested their hand-eye coordination to see whether space degrades eye-hand coordination, and to see whether astronauts exposure to cosmic radiation impairs their central nervous systems,...

The Boeing Co. [BA] delivered the 500th Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile seeker to Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], the PAC-3 prime contractor. The seeker enables the weapon system to detect...

Telesat Canada reported profits rose 15 percent while revenues advanced 1 percent last year. Telesat Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of BCE Inc., posted consolidated operating revenue of $479.0 million...

Tandberg, Ericsson Tandberg TV’s board has extended a unanimous recommendation to shareholders that they accept Ericsson’s buyout offer, Tandberg announced March 7. Ericsson made an unsolicited offer Feb. 26 to...

NASA has been fiscally eviscerated, so that even when science and research programs are robbed of vital funds to finance manned space exploration programs and their hardware, those latter programs...

NASA set a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, meaning the future spacecraft completed its system requirements review, NASA reported. The space agency last year gave Lockheed Martin...