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A review meeting where the top Pentagon weapons buyer and other senior leaders considered whether to continue the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) program ended with no announcement of a […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) approved almost $17.5 billion for NASA in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, and a move to add $1 billion more to make good […]

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system was launched in a test involving no target missile, a test that showed THAAD can perform well in the highly stressful area […]

As President Bush warmly welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, Putin’s armed forces were assessing a successful firing of a new type of […]

Access Intelligence Names Chase  To Chair SATELLITE 2008 Access Intelligence has named Scott Chase chairman for the SATELLITE 2008 Conference and Exhibition. Active in the satellite industry since 1981, for […]

Astrium-Thales Alenia Space Capture Satellite Contract Al Yah Satellite Communications Co. (YahSat) selected a consortium of EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to build a communications satellite to serve the […]

C-Com Sets Up Service Center In China C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. opened a service and support center in Beijing, the company announced. The center will be operated by Hua Sheng […]

  Apposite Technologies Announces Gigabit-Speed WAN Emulator Apposite Technologies Inc. unveiled its Linktropy 7500 and Linktropy 7500 Pro wide-area network emulation appliances, the company announced. The emulators simulate bandwidth, delay, […]

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) completed a series of production readiness reviews, prime contractor and systems engineering lead Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. MUOS, a narrowband tactical satellite communications […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN] bolstered SL-AMRAAM medium-range missile capabilities, the company announced. The International Surface Launched, Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile will be able to include capabilities of the AIM-9X and SL-AMRAAM-ER […]

The Orbital Express in-space service craft, ASTRO, captured a satellite in a fully autonomous operation, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-led program performed a […]

The United States may have to accept that the atomic genie is out of the bottle, as steadily more nations will possess nuclear weapons, including some states hostile to the […]

Lockheed To Deliver BSAT-3A and JCSAT-11 Spacecraft In July-September Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] plans to deliver spacecraft during July-September for Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. (B-SAT) and JSAT Corp. (JSAT), both […]

China developed and successfully tested various anti-satellite capabilities as a means to countering overwhelming U.S. military superiority, so that China might be able to win a toe-to-toe war with American […]

While further jointness and less overlap may be well in some legacy or mature areas of defense capabilities, some redundancy in programs could be welcome and beneficial in new mission […]

President Bush has stiff-armed Capitol Hill efforts to bolster funding for threadbare NASA space exploration, science and aeronautics, some members of Congress complained. In an administration letter, Bush refused to […]

Funding At Risk; Lawmakers, Brass, Given Tour Of Airborne Laser Boeing 747 Many of the components required to make the Airborne Laser (ABL) a working ballistic missile defense system already […]

The sea-based Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) system aced a test by obliterating a target missile in its midcourse flight over the Pacific Ocean, making a strong nine successes in […]

Orbiter Vehicle Appears Sound After Landing Space Shuttle Atlantis, blocked repeatedly by two days of bad Florida weather from landing at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), streaked through reentry and landed […]

The U.S. Air Force has issued a July 30 deadline for its final request for proposals for the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Military Operations System, a program that will […]

One of the most ambitious satellite broadband programs taking place anywhere in the world is Shin Satellite’s IPStar initiative, which aims to deliver cutting-edge satellite broadband services to corporations and […]

A pioneering program by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is providing technical expertise to human rights groups and helping Amnesty International USA with a new online […]

Thuraya has recently embarked on an ambitious pricing strategy as it looks to make its mobile satellite services more popular. Earlier this month, the company announced it was relaunching its […]

Last week’s news of the plans of U.K.-based private equity firm BC Partners to purchase with other investors a majority stake in Intelsat Ltd. for $5.03 billion looks to prove […]

Boeing Poised To Submit TSAT Proposal To Air Force The Boeing Co. [BA] announced it is preparing a proposal for development and production of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) […]

Delta V Launches Classified Payload In Orbit Despite Problem A United Launch Alliance Delta V rocket launched a classified payload into orbit, despite an anomaly in the upper stage of […]

Two key lawmakers urged the Department of Justice to investigate and possibly prosecute NASA General Counsel Michael Wholley for obstruction of justice and destruction of government records. Rep. Brad Miller […]

The Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX) will return to Pearl Harbor for scheduled maintenance and planned system upgrades later this month. Since departing Pearl Harbor last January, the SBX demonstrated […]