Government/Military

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke as a witness before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and then before the House Armed Services Committee, touching on topics including missile defense. The...

Russia May Agree To Share Missile Defense Radar Data With United States: Gates No Time To Lose, Because Iran Is Just Two To Three Years Away From Missiles Able To...

NASA selected four teams to observe the impact of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, with the lunar surface during the mission’s search for water ice...

Space Shuttle Discovery is poised to launch next week on the STS-119 Mission to the International Space Station. Discovery will rise at 7:32 a.m. ET Feb. 12 (Thursday) from Launch...

NASA will launch the NOAA-N weather/atmospheric scanning satellite at 2:22 a.m. PT Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., atop a Delta II rocket supplied by United Launch Alliance (ULA)....

The forward skirt extension of the next-generation Ares I-X rocket passed a separation test, NASA announced. Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] conducted the test at its Promontory, Utah, facilities. The rocket...

The launch of the Koronas-Foton sun-scanning satellite atop a Tsiklon-3 rocket has been postponed indefinitely, Russian mission control announced, according to the Itar-Tass news agency. Officials didn’t say why the...

[Satellite Today 02-02-09] Lockheed Martin‘s Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite has completed baseline integrated system testing of new flight software that enables command and control operations, the...

The U.S. Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) worked in a British M270B1 launcher, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. That test launch was conducted at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Observers...

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) delivered two unmanned target ground vehicles to the Air Force Range Management Office at Luke Air Force Base. Additional unmanned target systems have been installed by...