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The year 2020 was definitely one for the history books. The global pandemic forever changed life as we know it, and in its midst, our GPS development and production teams launched us deep into a new era of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities. COL. RYAN COLBURN DIRECTOR, SPECTRUM WARFARE DIVISION; SPACE AND MISSILE SYSTEMS CENTER PORTFOLIO ARCHITECT The list of capabilities delivered across Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) segments, in just one year, is of a volume not seen in decades. In short, we launched two and operationally accepted four new GPS III satellites, d...

Airbus released its Full Year (FY) 2020 results on Feb. 18 after a challenging year for the company, reporting 4.3 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in revenue — a 29% revenue decline compared to 2019. EBIT Adjusted for the FY was 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion), down 75% from 2019.  Airbus Defence and Space Segment also

The president's program will help us be in this endeavor in the long haul. joining me now the chief astronomer, derrick pitts. good evening, derrick. >> how are you? >> not bad, yourself? >> nod bad, thank you. now we have nasa family feud, babe ruth ruth arguing with lou gehrig. who's right here? >> the fact of the matter is if we look at what's actually happening with this program and look at kind of experience we have, the guys are right that they shouldn't let the program wind down to nothing. but the obama plan actually represents a couple of things. number one, it represents and acknowle...

Astronomer, derrick pitts. good evening, derrick. >> how are you? >> not bad, yourself? >> nod bad, thank you. >> now we have babe ruth arguing with lou gehrig. who's right here? >> the fact of the matter is if we look at what's actually happening with this program and look athe kind of experience we have, the guys are right that they shouldn't let the program wind down to nothing. but the obama plan actually represents a couple of things. number one, it represents and acknowledges, if you will, a kind of maturation of the space program because it proposes outsourcing, certain kinds of service...