Space
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Business/FinancialFinancial Bailout Package Will Tighten Finances Further On Missile Defense Programs, NASA
An emergency $700 billion financial industry bailout package that a worried, hurried Congress wrote to stave off a global economic disaster may serve to further tighten finances of many federal […]
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SpaceBatelle Scientists Invent Oxygen Generator That Doesn’t Require Any Electricity; Process Is Similar To Plant Photosynthesis
Invention May Aid Move To Develop Artificial Lungs Batelle Laboratory researchers have invented and patented a process for creating oxygen without electricity. This process could provide oxygen for humans in […]
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Homeland Security
Japan Set For Aegis/SM-3 Test In Week Of Nov. 17: Report
Japanese Self-Defense Forces are preparing for a test of their sea-based ballistic missile defense system in the week of Nov. 17, according to Kyodo News. The test at the Pacific […]
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Space
Phoenix Mars Lander Still Working Hard As It Faces A Death Sentence
The Phoenix lander, a plucky geologist unlocking many mysteries of Mars, is laboring away and still producing rich scientific finds as it faces a death sentence, NASA briefers said this […]
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Homeland Security
Missile-Sensing Satellite Detects, Tracks Target Missile In Test
The the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) research satellite successfully detected and tracked a modified Minuteman II booster vehicle with a simplified target payload that was launched from Vandenberg Air […]
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Business/Financial
Mars Orbiter Finds Martian Fissures That Filled With Water Eons Ago
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone, NASA reported. […]
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Business/Financial
Missile Defense Needed Even More As Enemy Capabilities, Threats, Actions Pose Daunting Challenge: MDAA
The United States needs to accelerate forming its missile defense shield now, more than ever, as enemy threats, worrisome capabilities and hostile actions mandate swift U.S. protective action, Riki Ellison, […]
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Business/Financial
IKONOS Satellite On Orbit Nine Years
The IKONOS commercial remote sensing satellite has been on orbit and continues to function, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. GeoEye Inc. [GEOY] owns and operates the bird, which supplies high-resolution […]
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Business/Financial
SpaceX Finally Launches Falcon 1, Rocket Soars To Orbit On Fourth Try
Launch Is A Win For Both SpaceX And NASA, Which Needs Commercial Transport Capabilities To Space Station Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, yesterday finally attained success in launching a […]
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Space
U.S. Spacecraft Goes On Display At Smithsonian Air And Space Museum
The Stardust spacecraft, which collected the first particles from a comet, will go on display at the Smithsonian Institution Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C., NASA […]