Space
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Business/FinancialMobil Satellite Signs Up For Capacity On Intelsat Satellites
Mobil Satellite Technologies is obtaining capacity on Intelsat Ltd. satellites. Under a multi-year contract, Intelsat will provide Mobil with satellite capacity. The network operator and communications provider will expand its […]
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Business/Financial
TSAT Contract Award Delayed From This December To Fiscal 2010; Boeing Versus Lockheed/Northrop In Long Contest For Potential $10 Billion Prize
The Department of Defense Saturday decided to delay the Transformational Satellite System (TSAT) contract that was to be awarded in December, putting it off until the June- September quarter in […]
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SpaceNASA Space Telescope Finds Pulsar With Gamma Rays
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a pulsar, a dead star, that pulses with gamma rays, NASA announced. That will permit scientists to learn more about how such collapsed […]
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Space
Hubble Space Telescope Begins Shift From Stricken Unit To Backup System, But Further Glitches Force Shutdown
NASA faces increasing chances that it will lose priceless scientific data and discoveries that it otherwise could have gathered during a third of a year, because a glitch on Sept. […]
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CongressDefense Acquisitions Should Focus On Meeting Schedules, Rather Than On Containing Costs: Industrial Base Is Healthy
The Department of Defense should shift its procurement programs from a heavy emphasis on containing costs, and stress instead maintaining schedules, a new report states. Costs have risen, and schedules […]
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Congress
Bush Signs 2009 NASA Authorization Measure; Griffin Lauds Backing For Moon, Mars Missions
President Bush signed into law a $20.2 billion NASA authorization bill, a measure that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin welcomed because it endorses the long-term goal of moving beyond low Earth […]
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Space
NASA Launches Spacecraft To Check On Possible Weakening Of Protective Layer Shielding Solar System From Cosmic Rays
Spacecraft Will Remain In Orbit For 45-Day Systems Checkout, Then Head Off To Edge Of Solar System The Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll […]
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Business/Financial
How To Cut Your Commute To Mars: Engineers Study Constant Acceleration, Deceleration To Slash Half-Year Trip
Continual Speedup, Slowdown Could Provide An Artificial Gravity, Eliminating Harm Weightlessness Causes Astronauts HAMPTON, Va. — Engineers working on the next-generation Constellation Program spaceship system design are considering propulsion units […]
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Business/Financial
Orbital To Deliver Satellite To SES
Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite, the company announced. The engineering team completed pre-shipment procedures for the satellite, which will […]
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Business/Financial
Future Orion Spacecraft Will Be Far Safer Than Space Shuttles, According To Lockheed Vice President And Former Astronaut
In Space Shuttle Program, 14 Crew Members So Far Died Over 17 Years In Two Disasters; NASA, Lockheed, Learning From Tragedies Reightler Says New System Eliminates Threats From Ice And […]