Space
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Business/FinancialSen. Levin Cites NPOESS As Example Of Problem Program, Over Budget And Behind Schedule; Young Says All Original Capabilities Ultimately May Not Be Orbited
Senate Panel Blasts $295 Billion Of Cost Overruns In Pentagon Programs; That Equals More Than 16 Times NASA Budget, About 30 Times More Than MDA Budget The National Polar-orbiting Operational […]
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Business/Financial
House Panel Backs NASA Reauthorization Measure With Few Changes, Sends It To House Floor
The House Science and Technology Committee favorably reported out the NASA reauthorization measure that would permit increased funding for the space agency and accelerate the first flight of the next-generation […]
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Homeland Security
Aegis Missile Defense Test Set For Thursday In Pacific
The Aegis ballistic missile defense system will be tested Thursday in the Pacific, with two interceptor missiles attempting to annihilate the short-range target missile in the terminal phase of its […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Seeks Ideas This Week For Lunar Surface Systems; Industry, Academia, Institutions Invited To Conference
NASA will release details of a broad agency announcement seeking ideas for buildings to be constructed on the moon, with those details being provided in a meeting in Washington, D.C., […]
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Homeland Security
Is Iran Moving Beyond Uranium Enrichment To Attempt Building Thermonuclear Bomb?
Iran is studying nuclear fusion, the technology of the hydrogen bomb (H-bomb), according to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency. The Iranian program was revealed by Sadat Hosseini, an Iranian […]
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Homeland Security
First THAAD Unit is Activated, Becomes An Army Battery
By Ann Roosevelt and Dave Ahearn The first Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) unit was activated, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. That Army unit is Alpha Battery, 4th […]
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SpaceCritic: NASA Should Abandon Moon Missions, And Develop Means To Fend Off Killer Comets, Meteoroids Instead
NASA should drop plans to visit and establish an outpost on the moon, and instead should focus on something more practical: saving mankind from extinction by a killer comet or […]
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Space
Phoenix Mars Lander Gets Just What It Wanted: An Icy Reception; Lander Operates Robotic Arm
The Phoenix Mars robotic spacecraft, having survived a hair-raising arrival on the red planet, immediately struck gold, or rather ice. (Please see Space & Missile Defense Report, Monday, May 26, […]
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Homeland Security
Airborne Laser Missile Defense System Begins Activation Tests
The Airborne Laser (ABL) completed its first activation tests on the ground, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Those tests were conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., home of the […]
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Business/Financial
Launches
Ariane 5 Launch Postponed Again, After Glitch In Rocket A scheduled launch Friday of an Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Skynet 5C and the Turksat 3A satellites was canceled because […]