SpaceNews

Raytheon Delivers Key Component for Missile Defense: First ABL Track Illuminator Laser provided to Lockheed Martin

U.S. Air Force’s Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense program. The ABL TILL is the first diode-pumped Yb:YAG laser that has qualified for flight operation aboard a military aircraft. Raytheon Space ...
Network World

Airborne laser weapons heating up

The US Missile Defense Agency and Boeing are creeping ever closer to test firing a laser at ballistic missile. Boeing this week said it had completed its first Airborne Laser (ABL) missile laser ...
Aviation Week

Airborne Laser program eyes more tests near end of decade

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser (ABL) program plans to begin tests against medium- and long-range ballistic missile targets shortly after conducting its first intercept attempt in ...
SpaceNews

Future Vandenberg mission passes another local hurdle

A meeting to collect public comments regarding environmental impacts from the military’s Airborne Laser test program drew just a few people and no objections at the Lompoc City Council Chambers Oct.
Houston Chronicle

(PZ) Refurbishing of Airborne Laser's Megawatt-Class Laser Proceeds with Redelivery of First Turbopump to Northrop Grumman

REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Aug. 21, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has received the first of six turbopumps that are being refurbished during the disassembly and inspection of ...