Author: Staff Writer

DHS Gives Northrop Anti-MANPADS Contract A tactical laser defense could be effective in killing short-range incoming enemy ballistic missiles, such as those now hitting Israel and attacking U.S. forces in...

North Korean missiles may have a greater capability for accuracy than some observers have stated, according to a report in the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. Six of seven missiles that North...

Worldspace Satellite Radio posted higher revenues in its 2006 second quarter, but the company’s subscriber additions plummeted in comparison to the first three months of the year, the company announced...

An Alliant Techsystems [ATK] missile motor test-fired successfully, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. The test involved fired a second-stage booster motor under the Submarine Launched Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (SLIRBM)...

Shin Satellite PCL lost 34 million Thai baht ($907,000) in the 2006 second quarter, as revenues slipped nearly 10 percent from the first three months of the year due to...

The Boeing Co. [BA] and the Air Force bounced a laser beam off a mirror, the company announced, a key advance for anti-ballistic missile technologies. That laser beam was redirected...

Andrew Corp. and ADC Telecommunications Inc. agreed to terminate their May merger agreement, and Andrew’s board also rejected an unsolicited takeover proposal from Commscope Inc., Andrew announced Aug. 9. Andrew...

The JCSAT-10 telecommunications satellite was launched into orbit, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] reported. JCSAT-10 is the fourth in a series of six satellite launches planned this year for Lockheed Martin...

Sea Launch‘s Odyssey platform and Commander have departed the company’s home port to prepare for the launch of the Koreasat 5 communications satellite, Sea Launch announced. The mission, which will...

A test instrumentation kit for the Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile (CALCM) / Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) passed tests, The Boeing Co. [BA] reported. The tests were conducted at the Utah...