Soyuz Lands Wednesday With Crew Space Shuttle Atlantis has arrived at Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., poised for a May 12 liftoff on the STS-125 Mission to repair and refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope. Meanwhile, a Russian Soyuz vehicle is set to land a crew back on Earth Wednesday, ...

Updated -- April 2, 2009 - 11 a.m. EDT Legend:+ Targeted For | * No Earlier Than (Tentative) |** To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: April 28 * Mission: GOES-O Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta IV Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - Launch Pad 37-B Launch Window: 6:24 - 7 ...

By Geoff Fein The 3rd Fleet is evaluating data collated from last month's Stellar Dagger exercise that showcased for the first time a simultaneous downing of a ballistic missile in its terminal phase and an incoming anti-ship cruise missile, an official said. Additionally, Stellar Dagger was the ...

France's Sagem Securite and Japan's Hitachi [HIT] have partnered to develop a multimode biometric recognition module based on Sagem's fingerprint identification technology and Hitachi's vein imaging technology. The module will be developed and produced by Sagem, a division of the SAFRAN Group. ...

By Dave Ahearn If leaders in Washington make crippling cuts in missile defense programs, or kill them outright, tens of thousands of Americans will be dumped out of good-paying, clean industrial jobs into jobless lines amidst the worst recession since the Great Depression. That was one of the ...

The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Carter Review. Aerospace Industries Association Vice President Cord Sterling reports no surprises coming out of the March 26 SASC confirmation hearing for Ashton Carter, President Obama's pick for Pentagon acquisition czar. ...

Discovery Orbiter Vehicle Looks Clean, Few Dings Seen In an intricate orbital dance, Space Shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station and made a landing at Kennedy Space Center as beautiful and point-perfect as its liftoff a lucky 13 days earlier atop a pink plume of exhaust ...

Missile Defense Critics Cite Countermeasures In Enemy Missiles, But Then Move To Cut Funds For Airborne Laser That Overcomes Countermeasures While Obama Castigates Cold War Systems That Go Unused, Franks Says He Would Be Delighted To See Missile Defense Unused If Enemies Don't Attack While ...

Shorter-Range Missiles Also May Launch North Korea as early as Saturday plans to launch a missile that it says will orbit a satellite, but which many military analysts say will be a Taepo Dong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching targets in North America. In its last ...

Boeing Briefs On Satellites, Missile Defense, Others Northrop, NASA Detail LCROSS The world space economy increased by almost 2.5 percent, or $6 billion, to $257 billion last year, amidst the deepest global economic downturn in more than half a century, a Space Foundation report stated. The Space ...