Government/Military

Chinese Submarines Can Be Armed With Anti-Ship Missiles Deadly To Carriers In two separate incidents, Chinese submarines recently crept up near the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier George Washington, according to...

Updated — October 22, 2008 – 3:45 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Nov. 14 + Mission: STS-126...

Indian Moon Orbiter Will Send Probe To Lunar Surface European, Other Instruments On Orbiter Will Study Moon India launched an unmanned spacecraft headed for the moon, marking a further emergence...

Northrop Given $206 Million Air Force Space And Missile Contract For Support Services The Air Force gave Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] a contract worth up to $206 million to provide...

[Satellite Today 10-27-08] Boeing Launch Services launched the third Cosmo-SkyMed satellite Oct. 24 aboard a Delta 2 rocket procured from United Launch Alliance, Boeing announced.     Cosmo-SkyMed 3, manufactured by...

The competition to supply private commercial space transport services to NASA is heating up, as The Boeing Co. [BA] joined a PlanetSpace team that already included Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]...

Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. [HON] filed a protest last week with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), objecting to NASA awarding a $1.26 billion contract to ITT Corp. [ITT]. NASA selected...

[Satellite Today 10-27-08] Lockheed Martin completed acoustic testing of the first geosynchronous orbit spacecraft in the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program, GEO-1, the company announced Oct. 27.     Thermal...

NASA Now May Not Lose Four Months Of Pioneering Data From Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope, after being sidelined by multiple glitches, is edging slowly back toward operational capability,...

By Marina Malenic The Air Force is creating a new major command organization with authority over all air-breathing nuclear assets, Air Force leaders said. According to a nuclear "roadmap" unveiled...