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Loft Orbital Signs Agreement to Procure Over 15 Airbus Arrow Satellite Platforms

WIL BALDWIN January 17, 2022

Airbus (OTC: EADSY) has been contracted to supply space start-up Loft Orbital with more than fifteen satellite platforms derived from the Airbus Arrow platform. Arrow is the foundational satellite platform of the OneWeb constellation. There…

Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 Engine Marks 500th Flight with AEHF-6 Launch

WIL BALDWIN March 27, 2020March 27, 2020

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The successful March 26 launch of the U.S. Space Force’s sixth and final Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance…

Boeing Out of Minuteman Missile Replacement Competition

WIL BALDWIN December 14, 2019

The Boeing logo is displayed on a screen, at the NYSE in New York WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co <BA> has decided not to compete as a prime contractor to replace the Pentagon's aging U.S.-based…

U.S. Space Fence Detects Debris from India Anti-Satellite Test

WIL BALDWIN May 23, 2019May 23, 2019

KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands, May 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Air Force Space Fence system detected the breakup field from an anti-satellite test conducted by India during a scheduled endurance exercise of the new…

Harris & L3 To Merge, Become 6th Largest US Defence Contractor

WIL BALDWIN October 15, 2018October 15, 2018

By Jarrett Renshaw and Harry Brumpton (Reuters) - Military communication equipment providers Harris Corp (HRS.N) and L3 Technologies Inc (LLL.N) announced on Sunday an all-stock merger that will create the United States' sixth-largest defence contractor…

Orbital ATK Now Part of Northrop Grumman

WIL BALDWIN June 7, 2018

Orbital ATK is no more. Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) on Wednesday, as expected, completed its $7.8 billion acquisition of Dulles-based Orbital and immediately changed its name to Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, a fourth…