![MDA Study Could Eventually Lead To Additional Missile-tracking Satellites]()
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Pentagon are studying the organization’s long-term need for sensors that detect ballistic missiles, a move that could help determine the size of the agency’s missile-tracking satellite constellation in the 2020s.
![Congress More Eager than DoD for East Coast Interceptor Site]()
U.S. lawmakers continue to push for an East Coast interceptor site to defend against long-range ballistic missiles, but top Pentagon officials want the Missile Defense Agency to focus on other priorities first.
![MDA Extends Raytheon’s Sole-source Radar Contract]()
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans to extend its contract with Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems for ballistic missile radars through 2021 and might order more AN/TPY-2 radars.
![MDA Corp. Worries Canada Is Losing Its Robot Edge]()
MDA Corp. of Canada on May 4 warned that Canada was losing its space-robotics edge because of the government’s decision to pass up collaborative development opportunities in Europe and elsewhere.
![Editorial | MDA Tries Its Hand with Hosted Payloads]()
MDA's budget blueprint for 2016 contained a refreshing surprise: a $22 million request to field of commercially hosted sensors that would determine whether or not incoming missiles have been successfully intercepted.
![MDA Kill Assessment Sensors Would Be Commercially Hosted]()
The MDA is developing an experimental network of space-based sensors that would launch aboard commercial satellites and verify whether incoming missiles have been destroyed by defensive interceptors and no longer pose a threat.
![Spotlight | Space Systems/Loral]()
High demand has prompted SSL to boost manufacturing capacity and upgrade facilities.
![MDA Sees Rebound in U.S. Earth Observation Market]()
Satellite manufacturer MDA Corp. of Canada on Feb. 25 said the U.S. government is back in the market as a big customer for Earth observation data after a U.S. budget sequestration-caused slump in 2014.
![MDA Launches Three Targets in Aegis Test]()
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency launched three missile targets over the Atlantic Ocean Feb. 24 to test the sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System’s response to a multitiered attack.
![MDA Will Have Lead Role in Developing New Kill Vehicle]()
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency intends to lead the effort to design a new kill vehicle for ground-based interceptors by using the best ideas from three previously submitted industry concepts.
![Arbitrator Sets ViaSat Payments at $55M for MDA, $45M for Loral]()
MDA Corp. and SSL will pay 55 percent of the award judgment, with Loral Space and Communications paying the remaining 45 percent.
MDA Corp. will over the next six months find new methods to combine the use of radar and optical satellites to track so-called dark ships.
![Canada’s MDA Suggests Lack of Government Support May Prompt Another Move]()
Canada’s seeming vacillation as to how to advance the nation’s specialty in space-based robotics was in part responsible for MDAy’s purchase of SSL.
![MDA Tracking Test Marshals Sensors in the Air, at Sea and in Space]()
For the test, a medium-range ballistic missile target was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility.
The MDA is beginning its search for components for a redesigned kill vehicle, the part of a missile interceptor that destroys warheads by force of impact.
