Author: Staff Writer

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...

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system completed a radar data collection flight test last week, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) reported. A short range target missile...

Just a day before a congressional subcommittee was to meet and possibly issue subpoenas in a NASA Inspector General controversy, the lawmakers’ session was canceled because the Bush administration agreed...

U.S. ballistic missile defense systems likely would work to knock down any incoming enemy ballistic missiles, industry briefers said today. The Boeing Co. [BA] had a great year in its...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] unveiled two new missiles, the DAGR and P44, developed with company funding leveraging existing technologies to fill battlefield needs. The Direct Attack Guided Rocket, DAGR, is...

Launch users such as satellite industry participants are invited to a Department of Defense (DOD) industry day for a briefing April 5 in California on the United Launch Alliance (ULA)...

China may procure an aircraft carrier to go with its military buildup of destroyers and four new types of submarines, cutting-edge aircraft and hundreds of missiles. Rep. J. Randy Forbes...

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...