Raytheon interceptor hits mark using satellite data

A missile made by Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems destroyed a ballistic missile in a test primarily using targeting data from space satellites, the company said today.

Raytheon scores contract for 19 more missile killers

Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a $230 million contract to produce 19 Standard Missile-3 interceptors for the nation's emerging missile-defense shield - including five copies of an advanced version whose future looked uncertain a year ago.

Raytheon scores contract for 19 more missile killers

A Standard Missile-3 Block IB, under development by Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems, was launched from the U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Lake Erie in a successful intercept test off Hawaii on June 27, 2011.