Government/Military

Hackers in recent years have invaded computers at NASA and other agencies, swiping millions of pages of data, some of it sensitive, according to a news report. Cyber break-ins struck...

[Satellite Today 11-26-08] L-3 Communications was awarded a $28 million option placement to provide its Prophet signals intelligence platforms for the U.S. Army, L-3 announced Nov. 26.     Under this...

[Satellite Today 11-26-08] Goodrich Corp. received a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to produce the first operational satellite system in support of Operationally Responsive Space (ORS), the company...

[Satellite Today 11-26-08] A second South African satellite is scheduled to be launched in March, according to a Nov. 25 statement from the South African Foreign Affairs Ministry.     The...

[Satellite Today 11-25-08] Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has finished the instrument critical design review for the Operational Land Imager instrument for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, the company announced...

Updated — November 24, 2008 – 2 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date:Nov. 14 Mission: STS-126 Launch Vehicle:...

The BAE Systems Nulka anti-missile asset was installed on its 100th Navy ship, BAE announced. Nulka is a rocket propelled active decoy designed to lure anti-ship missiles away from the...

Commercial space traveler Richard Garriott, son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, returned to Earth after a mission to the International Space Station, Space Adventures, Ltd. announced. The company books commercial...

Alan Stern Resigned From NASA This Year NASA space hardware programs frequently run over budget, and the space agency should keep a tighter rein on spending, a former NASA science...

The abort motor for the next-generation U.S. spaceship Orion successfully test-fired. Once Orion begins manned flights to space in the middle of the next decade, if a crisis occurs in...