The MDA says the Spacebased Kill Assessment sensors are slated to launch starting in the fourth quarter 2016 and continue in 2017, which parallels the Falcon 9 launch schedule for the Iridium Next ...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s first commercially hosted payload is now expected to launch in mid-2017, nine months later than the date officials used when they discussed the program in March ...

In an unique partnership between the Air Force and private industry, Boeing has prepared the payload to assist in the calibration and testing of electro-optical space imaging systems. The payload ...

Three companies have received Air Force contracts for early work on a payload for the projected Space Based Radar (SBR). Harris Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon Co. each got about $8.6 ...

L3Harris Fort Wayne advances space technology L3Harris claims to be at the heart of advanced, space-based missile defense and life-saving weather capabilities.

GAO has long warned the program’s first launch would be delayed at least a year. Those projections could prove true, but perhaps for more nuanced reasons.

The payload, developed entirely by students and faculty from the department of electrical and electronics engineering, represents a breakthrough in cost-effective space technology.

Lockheed Martin has delivered the third of four highly elliptical earth orbit (HEO) satellite payloads contracted by the U.S. Air Force as part of the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS). The ...

GEOST — an Arozona-based company that builds small- to medium-sized, electro-optical/infrared sensors —noted in a Dec. 21 statement it is already involved with that effort, having recently completed a ...

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) requested USD292.8 million to integrate its Space-based Kill Assessment (SKA) system, meant to report on the success or failure of ...

Lacroix Defense and sister company Milton are examining how Milton's Sky Keeper UAV could be used to deploy soft-kill countermeasures for ship self-defence. (Lacroix) French countermeasures ...