United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has deployed a National Reconnaissance Office payload into space aboard its Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The NROL-52 payload lifted off Sunday at 3:28 a.m. Eastern time to support NRO’s national security mission, ULA said Sunday. The company launched NROL-52 using an Atlas […] More

Rick Weiss, a spokesperson for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has said Cape Canaveral in Florida will serve as the site for flight tests and launch operations for a hypersonic aircraft to be developed under DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane program, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday. DARPA partnered with Boeing in May to build an unmanned reusable spaceplane – […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has partnered with Boeing to design, develop and test a demonstration space vehicle under DARPA’s Experimental Spaceplane program. The XS-1 program seeks to build and launch a new set of hypersonic aircraft designed to provide less-expensive access to space at short notice in support of national security missions, DARPA said Wednesday. […] More

NASA has conducted a 500-second, live-fire test of an engine controller installed on an RS-25 development engine for the Space Launch System rocket at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The space agency will verify the data collected from the live-fire test held Thursday and then install the Engine Controller Unit-2 on one of the four Aerojet Rocketdyne-built RS-25 flight […] More

Ninety-nine student teams from high schools and universities in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Brazil and other countries will participate in NASA’s three-day Human Exploration Rover Challenge that will kick off March 30 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama. NASA said Wednesday the Marshall Space Flight Center will host the competition that will require […] More

The Lockheed Martin–Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance has launched a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calfornia. ULA said Wednesday the Atlas V lifted off with the NROL-79 payload at 12:50 p.m. Eastern time as part of NRO’s national defense mission. The rocket is based on the Evolved […] More

Orbital ATK has opened a new office at Hill Air Force Base in Utah in a move to help the military branch collaborate directly with the company to sustain Minuteman III boosters. The company said Tuesday the 7,000-square-foot office space it leased at Falcon Hill Research Park will accommodate employees that work under the company’s propulsion subsystem support contract with the Air Force […] More

Lockheed Martin has kicked off construction of a program management facility at  the Falcon Hill National Aerospace Research Park in Utah to support the U.S. Air Force‘s project to develop a follow-on intercontinental ballistic missile system. Lockheed said Friday it will move into the company’s program management office at Falcon Hill by August 2017 as part of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent competition and seeks […] More

Lockheed Martin has selected Falcon Hill National Aerospace Research Park at Hill Air Force Base in Utah as the location of the company’s program management office for the U.S. Air Force‘s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile replacement effort. Lockheed said Thursday it signed a lease agreement with Falcon Hill developer Woodbury Corp. for 25,000 square feet of office space to house the former’s PMO […] More

Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal for the U.S. Air Force’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile replacement program and named the companies that will work as subcontractors on the program, the National Defense Magazine reported Thursday. Vivienne Machi writes John Karas, a vice president and ground-based strategic deterrent program manager at Lockheed, said in a media call that […] More

A Boeing-built orbital test vehicle has spent more than 500 days in Earth orbit since the U.S. Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft from Cape Canaveral in Florida last year, Space.com reported Monday. Leonard David writes the X-37B space plane launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May 20, 2015 as part of the Orbital Test Vehicle-4 mission. The X-37B […] More

NASA has conducted a series of tests with Orbital ATK, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne to evaluate the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket that the agency plans to launch in 2018 as part of an unmanned space exploration mission. Lockheed’s engineering teams have completed proof pressure tests on the Orion crew […] More