Space
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SpaceBoeing Awaits Air Force Decision On Harvesting TSAT Capabilities
By Marina Malenic Boeing [BA] executives said recently that they are awaiting Pentagon decisions on which capabilities from a now-canceled major satellite communications program will be harvested and inserted into […]
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DoD Sees Export Reforms Aiding Post-Constellation Space Industry
By Emelie Rutherford Faced with lawmakers concerned about how proposed NASA changes might harm the solid-rocket-motor industrial base, Pentagon officials said recently they hope easing export processes would help impacted […]
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International Launch Services and Telesat Announce the ILS Proton Launch of Nimiq 6 in 2012
International Launch Services (ILS) and Telesat recently announced a contract for the ILS Proton launch of Telesat’s Nimiq 6 satellite scheduled for mid-2012. “ILS has a longstanding history with Telesat […]
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NASA Calls Industry Response On Commercial Suborbital Study ‘Excellent’
By Marina Malenic NASA said recently that it has received “excellent response” from the commercial reusable suborbital spaceflight industry to a request for information (RFI) released in December. The agency […]
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Pentagon Studying Impact of NASA Constellation Cancellation
By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon officials are studying how President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel NASA’s Constellation spaceflight program would impact the military’s solid-rocket-motor efforts. The White House’s fiscal year 2011 […]
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Lockheed Martin, ATK Announce Team On Next-Gen Athena Rocket
By Marina Malenic Lockheed Martin [LMT] and ATK [ATK] March 25 announced a teaming agreement to manufacture a modernized Athena rocket that could support both civil and military space launches. […]
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Launch of ASTRA 3B Satellite Postponed by Several Days
SES ASTRA on Friday said that the launch of its new ASTRA 3B satellite has been postponed due to an anomaly that occurred in a launcher subsystem. The launch service […]
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Aerojet’s Advanced Third Stage Technology Demonstration Motor Successfully Tested by Air Force
GenCorp‘s [GY] Aerojet and the Air Force conducted a successful static test of Aerojet’s Advanced Third Stage (A3S) technology demonstration motor in support of the U.S. Family of Motors for […]
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Northrop Grumman Eyes GMD Work As STSS Prepares To Enter Testing
By Marina Malenic Northrop Grumman [NOC] executives last week reaffirmed plans to bid for a Pentagon contract for sustainment of the country’s silo-based missile defense system and said they are […]
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ManTech Awarded $160 Million Contract to Provide Systems Engineering and Integration Services to U.S. Air Force for Space Launches
ManTech International Corporation [MANT] said last week that it was awarded a prime contract worth a potential $160 million to provide system engineering and integration services to support current and […]