Government/Military

Experts To Meet Wednesday To Reassess Safety Concerns March 12 Liftoff At 8:54 P.M. ET Would Mean On-Schedule Launches For Hubble, Station Missions The much-delayed Space Shuttle Discovery now may...

Delay Allows Time To Ensure Kepler Doesn’t Meet Fate Of Satellite Last Week The Kepler space telescope launch has been shifted to Friday night, a day later than planned, so...

An Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missile launched successfully in a recent stockpile verification test at Fort Bliss, Texas, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. The missile was fired from a...

Updated — Feb. 28, 2009 – 12 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: March 6 * Mission: Kepler...

The Boeing Co. [BA] gave NASA a proposal for Altair lunar lander design support. NASA is expected to award multiple contracts this spring. The lunar lander, part of the Constellation...

Report Appeared In Russian Paper President Obama offered to kill plans to build the European Missile Defense (EMD) system if Russia would help the United States force Iran to abandon...

NASA gave Oceaneering International Inc. an interim letter contract for the next-generation American spacesuit. Oceaneering, of Houston, will begin work on designing, developing and producing a new spacesuit system for...

[Satellite Today 02-27-09] Raytheon Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of Raytheon Co. received a $1.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for initial production of the GPS Advanced Digital Antenna...

[Satellite News 02-26-09] DigitalGlobe‘s WorldView 2 remote sensing instrument, provided by ITT Corp., has been integrated by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. into the WorldView 2 spacecraft, DigitalGlobe announced Feb....

[Satellite News 02-26-09] Orbital Sciences’ investigation into the cause of a Feb. 24 Taurus rocket failure that destroyed NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) could take months, Orbital spokesman Barry Beneski...