Space
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Business/FinancialMKV Aces Test At Hover Facility
The Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) ballistic missile interceptor system that can take out multiple enemy warheads passed a test recently, the Missile Defense Agency announced. Multiple warheads are a major […]
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Air ForceMissile Defense Systems Assailed In Think Tank Report
Report: Kill European Missile Defense And Airborne Laser; Halt Procurement, Deployment Of Aegis, GMD, THAAD, Patriot; And End Streamlined Missile Defense Budget System The multi-layered U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]
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Business/Financial
Arianespace Postpones Wednesday Launch Of Ariane 5 Heavy Lifter; No New Launch Date Has Been Set
The launch of an Ariane 5 rocket will be postponed, Arianespace announced. Originally set for Wednesday, no new date has been set for liftoff. The delay was caused by unspecified […]
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Business/Financial
Ground-based Missile Defense System Scores Major Success, Killing Target By Using Multiple Radars For Accuracy
Glitch Occurs In Target Missile, But GMD Interceptor Works Flawlessly; Win Bolsters European Missile Defense Plan Test Success Comes As Obama, Congress, Poised To Consider Funding For Missile Defense In […]
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SpaceSpace Shuttle Endeavour Set For Takeoff Tomorrow, Riding Boeing 747 Back To Kennedy
Space Shuttle Endeavour may get a piggyback ride tomorrow on a specially modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet, which will take Endeavour back to Kennedy Space Center, NASA announced. The transfer […]
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Business/Financial
United States Has Lost Attempt To Block Iran From Developing Nuclear Weapons; ‘We Have Lost This Race:’ Bolton
Only Possibility Of Blocking Iranian Nukes Is That Israel Might Launch Military Strike European Missile Defense System Would Become Final Bulwark Against Nuclear Iran The United States has failed to […]
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Space
NASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
Updated — December 4, 2008 – 4 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Dec. ** Mission: TacSat-3 Launch […]
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Space
Iran To Have Operational ICBM Within A Couple Of Years: Analyst
Missile Defense System Needed Urgently Iran will have an operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) “in a couple of years,” an analyst predicted, while noting that Iran also is working toward […]
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Homeland Security
Insurgents Have Scores Of Surface-To-Air Missiles
Terrorist insurgents in Iraq have scores of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), a new report shows. In more than two years since October 2006, at least 121 SAMs have been discovered in […]
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CongressTauscher Sees ‘Increasing Danger’ From A Nuclear Iran, Recommends Talks, Inspections, Nuclear Fuel Controls, But Makes No Mention Of Ballistic Missile Defense
A key member of Congress said that an imminent move by Iran to possess nuclear weapons poses "increasing danger" to the United States, but didn’t mention deploying missile defense systems […]