Missile Warning & Defense

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has executed a third massive tranche of contract awards under its Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, adding 340 contractors to the vehicle today, Jan. 15, 2026 ...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded four contracts totaling $3.5 billion on Friday, Dec. 19, to build 72 satellites for the Tranche 3 Tracking Layer. This latest acquisition represents the largest single award to date for the Proliferated Warfighter Space ...

MELBOURNE, Fla. — In a historic shift for U.S. space defense policy, L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) confirmed yesterday that its Meadowlands offensive space warfare system has successfully completed an "international Initial Baseline Review." This milestone, announced via the L3Harris newsroom ...

WASHINGTON — As reported earlier this week on SatNews, the Department of Defense has initiated a significant strategic pivot in homeland defense architecture, awarding initial prototype contracts for space-based interceptors under the "Golden Dome" program while simultaneously fortifying nuclear deterrence ...

PROMONTORY, Utah — Targeting the critical supply chain bottlenecks that have plagued the defense industrial base, Northrop Grumman has successfully static fired a new solid rocket motor (SRM) developed in less than one year. The test of the SMASH!22 motor, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Space Force’s Combat Forces Command (CFC) formally took operational acceptance of the solid-state Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) system on December 4, 2025. This acceptance marks a pivotal advancement for the Space Force’s Missile ...

Rohde & Schwarz and SRC, Inc. has completed the first delivery of the RSGEN™, an electronic warfare (EW) environmental signal generation system, to a major DoW test facility. The RSGEN system is compatible with the military’s Next Generation Electronic Warfare ...

Ursa Major has closed $100 million in its Series E funding round and received an additional $50 million in debt funding commitments—investors include both new and long-term supporters of Ursa Major’s mission, including Eclipse, who led the round and were ...

Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO) has introduced four, wideband, solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs) for radar, SATCOM, electronic warfare (EW) and test applications. Qorvo’s newest SSPAs enable up to 50 percent smaller and one-third lighter system-level solutions compared to legacy traveling wave tube ...

Rocket Lab's HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) launch vehicle stands ready before its inaugural “Scout's Arrow” mission launch on June 18, 2023, from Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: Rocket Lab JUSTIN is the mission name for ...

Photo from a previous launch Rocket Lab successfully launched the JENNA mission, a suborbital flight under its Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test (HASTE) program, from Wallops Island, Virginia, on September 22, 2025, around 7:45 PM EDT. The purpose of the mission ...

Safran Electronics & Defense and QinetiQ have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver sovereign and resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) solutions for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD). This collaboration addresses today’s urgent need for trusted PNT ...

Rocket Lab's HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) is a modified Electron rocket for suborbital hypersonic testing. It is a liquid-fueled launch vehicle designed to provide cost-effective and high-cadence testing of hypersonic technologies for the U.S. Department of Defense. The ...

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) and SNC have engaged in a strategic partnership to align multi-domain capabilities to define and build the next generation of integrated, open architecture air & missile defense in support of the Golden Dome for America (GDA) ...

The first of a new, more capable, more survivable missile warning satellite, designed by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for today’s highly contested space domain, has successfully completed environmental testing. The first Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit ...

Photo of Electron Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch their Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) into low Earth orbit on Sunday, July 13 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. The cost ...

Venus Aerospace, earlier this month, successfully completed the first U.S. flight test of a next-generation rocket engine: a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE). This milestone marks a breakthrough in American aerospace, with a design ultimately aimed at enabling vehicles to ...

Image is courtesy of Honeywell Aerospace Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) has been selected by L3Harris Technologies (L3Harris) to upgrade the U.S. Army’s Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System (ARES) via the firm's JetWave™ X satellite communication system. With JetWave X, the ...

A Leidos-led (NYSE: LDOS) industry team has successfully completed two reusable/recoverable innovative hypersonic solution tests for the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) program—the MACH-TB program is designed to increase the ...

Rendering of the Kratos Hypersonic System Indiana Payload Integration Facility Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) has announced the groundbreaking of the company’s new Hypersonic System Indiana Payload Integration Facility (IPIF) in Crane, Indiana—this state-of-the-art 68,000-square-foot office, laboratory, ...