2023 SMD Symposium highlights advances, products, services in missile defense

The 2023 Space and Missile Defense Symposium has come to a close, and so with it one of the busiest weeks for Huntsville this year. The event, held August 8-10 at the Von Braun Center, featured 20 Tech Track discussions and over 260 exhibitors showcasing products and services ranging from weapon systems and precision machining […]

Huntsville business cuts ribbon on new Interceptor Engineering Center

Helping kick off a busy week here in Madison County, Raytheon hosted a ribbon cutting for its new Interceptor Engineering Center in its facility at 401 Jan Davis.  The new Interceptor Engineering Center is an expansion of the facility in Tucson, Arizona. The Interceptor Program is a missile defense program focusing on detecting and destroying […]

Huntsville’s Avilution successfully demonstrates new experimental technologies at EDGE

Avilution LLC, a Huntsville-based avionics software startup company, soared to new heights with its successful demonstration of new experimental technologies at this year’s U.S. Army Experimental Demonstration Gateway Exercise (EDGE 23), held at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground. Avilution participated in the exercise from May 15 through May 18, 2023. Because of the critical need to […]

Women in Missile Defense Luncheon tackles women’s issues in industry

The Women in Missile Defense Luncheon kicked off the Space and Missile Defense Symposium at 11:30 on August 7, highlighting the achievements of and hurdles faced by women working in the male-dominated industry. The panelists were Lynn Troy, Troy 7 President; Angela Rittenbach, CEO and President of Riverstone Solutions; and Janice Chen, Associate Director for […]

Robins & Morton celebrates completion of Redstone Gateway 8100

Construction firm Robins & Morton and Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) have completed the Redstone Gateway 8100 building in Huntsville, Alabama. The five-story, 125,000-square-foot office building is located on Rideout Road, just outside Gate 9 at Redstone Arsenal, and is adjacent to the five-story RG8200/RG8300 Northrop Grumman R&D campus buildings completed by Robins & Morton earlier this […]

Huntsville business wins $1B military contract

Solytics, a joint venture between Intrepid and Cintel, has been named an awardee of the $1B Test & Evaluation Technologies for Ranges, Armaments & Spectrum (TETRAS) II IDIQ for the Air Force’s 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Fla. TETRAS II will support the continuous mission of the test community for the development […]

City of Huntsville, State of Alabama reacts to Space Command decision

As of yesterday, President Joe Biden overturned a long-time battle to move the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) headquarters from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama. The decision curtails the long political battle that began under the administration of former President Donald Trump. In a recent press statement, Biden mentioned that the decision leaned heavily on the […]

Uncovering the mystery of Huntsville’s brilliant anti-gravity scientist

  Dr. Ning Li’s son talks about his mom’s career and legacy — and the internet’s long, strange obsession with her so-called “disappearance.” In this line of work, you develop a particular skill that they don’t teach in journalism school and probably couldn’t if they tried: the ability to explain to a total stranger, in […]

Above: Orbital Announces Successful Test at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Above: Orbital, which designs and develops adaptable, space-based platforms for the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial customers, successfully completed a test of its proprietary cold gas engine thruster technology and software representing a significant proprietary industry milestone in developing artificial gravity platforms. “This is exciting and further validation of our partial gravity control systems,” […]

Pasquali Microwave USA Enters North American Markets

Pasquali Group, an esteemed Italian technology company, has selected Fighter Link Solutions International to implement and execute its expansion plans into the United States and North American markets under Pasquali Microwave USA. This effort began more than four years ago with the establishment of Pasquali Microwave USA. After an initial period to understand the American […]