Officials want space-faring nations to agree to play nice in orbit so that everyone can continue to use space safely.

Boeing announced Monday it’s moving into NASA’s old space shuttle digs to work on its new spacecraft.

The Air Force’s space boss said he’d be open to a discussion on the future of its ultra-secret space plane.

The Air Force’s space boss said his top priority is protecting GPS, and a proposed broadband network threatens it.

LightSquared said it isn’t the political puppet master it’s been made out to be in the battle over GPS interference.

After the top Air Force space boss confirmed a proposed new network would effectively jam military GPS, a scandal appeared to be brewing.

United Technologies Corp. is said to be considering whether to sell off part of its rocket engine division, given the bleak prospects for the space market.

Pentagon officials and their Chinese counterparts will discuss how everyone can get along in the increasingly crowded world of civil and military space.

NASA and ULA say they’ll cooperate on studying whether humans could someday fly to space on a big utility rocket.

With more rounds of defense spending cuts looming, the Pentagon must choose which roles and missions are a top priority and which ones aren’t important as it drafts future budgets; a move that will no doubt entail risk and the usual round of ‘painful choices,’ a pair of think tankers advised lawmakers and their staff today on Capitol Hill.

The final mission of the space shuttle Atlantis highlights the uncertain future of manned spaceflight for America.

The White House is warning that congressional cutbacks could hurt DoD’s ability to develop new short-fuse, strike-anywhere weapons. Will the new SecDef fight for them?

The space sector could be one of the first to feel the most serious squeezes from budget pressure, but a top engine manufacturer wants to preempt the pain.

The airmen of the 920th Rescue Wing have just two more space shuttle launches to oversee in their role as the protectors of the astronauts.

A senior Air Force space official recently warned of the threat of 4G wireless service interfering with Global Positioning System transmissions.

The cancellation of NASA’s Constellation rocket program last year and the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet has contributed to significant cost spikes for the solid fuel rocket motors the Navy uses on its Trident sea launched ballistic missiles which are the only solid rockets in use today.

The Air Force’s Chief Information Officer, Lt. Gen. William Lord just shed some more light on how the Pentagon is working to solve the timeless problem of getting all its jets, satellites and ground vehicles to talk to one another.

One of China’s top space executives is scheduled to come to the US and speak next month at the National Space Symposium, the nation’s premier space conference. The speaker will be Lei Fanpei, vice president of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. He is not the first PRC space expert to appear at the […]

Lockheed Martin believes there is a good chance the US will recommit to the tri-nation MEADS missile defense program, driven by its smaller manpower requirements, ease of transport and higher reliability. And Germany and Italian officials told a senior Lockheed official that they remain committed to MEADS and other countries may well join the program sometime in the next two years.