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NASA Artemis Rocket Booster Suffers Anomaly During Test

NASA conducted a full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor - part ...
SpaceNews

Lockheed Martin Ventures invests in rocket propulsion startup Venus Aerospace

WASHINGTON — Rocket propulsion startup Venus Aerospace announced Oct. 22 that Lockheed Martin Ventures has taken a strategic ...

California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime

CEOs are touting their companies’ ability to rapidly spool up satellite, sensor, and rocket production. Publicly, they all ...

Italy's Avio invests in US plant amid accelerating missile demand

Italy's Avio will direct most of an upcoming capital hike to the development of a new U.S. facility, with the remaining funds aimed at boosting its European production capacity, the CEO of the rocket ...
Janes

BAE Systems expands SRM production capability for tactical missiles

BAE Systems is expanding its solid rocket motor (SRM) propellant production capabilities at Radford Army Ammunition Plant in ...

Rio Rancho residents raise concerns over rocket and missile production facility

Can you live safely next to a rocket factory? That’s the question people in Rio Rancho had for a rocket manufacturing and ...

Rocket Report: China tests Falcon 9 lookalike; NASA’s Moon rocket fully stacked

Lockheed Martin Ventures has made similar investments in other rocket startups, including Rocket Lab in 2015. What’s this ...
New Atlas

Russia flies strategic cruise missile propelled by a nuclear engine

Russia has flown a nuclear-arm-capable cruise missile propelled by a nuclear engine. In a televised conference chaired by ...

AeroVironment’s Freedom Eagle-1 Picked As New Counter-Drone Interceptor For U.S. Army

The Army sees Freedom Eagle-1 as providing an important new layer of lower-cost air defense, especially against long-range ...
Defense Daily

Apex Planning On-Orbit Demonstration Of Commercially Developed Space Based Interceptor Next June

Satellite bus designer and manufacturer Apex next summer plans to demonstrate commercially-developed space-based interceptor ...
Defense Daily

Avio Plans More Than $400 Million Spend, Much of It on U.S. SRM Production

Shareholders in Italy's Avio SpA have approved the company's $465 million 10-year investment plan targeted at building solid ...
SpaceNews

Startup takes on space-based missile defense — with its own cash

WASHINGTON — Apex, a Los Angeles-based satellite manufacturing startup, is investing its own capital to demonstrate it can build and deploy interceptors in space for Golden Dome, a planned missile ...