Space
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SpaceATK Launch Systems and Space Systems Merging
Two units of Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] will merge, the company announced. The Launch Systems and Space Systems groups are combining into a single business unit, the company stated. They […]
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Space
AEHF Satellite Program Progresses
The second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite saw its spacecraft core structure mated with the payload module, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. AEHF will provide global, highly […]
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Space
NASA Robotic Vehicles Zip Around Moon-Like Landscape On Earth
Unmanned vehicles this month zipped around a lunar-style landscape, but it was on Earth, where they had to fight 16 times the force of gravity that they would encounter on […]
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Homeland Security
Rubin Proposes Major Improvement For European Missile Defense; Would Counter Missiles From India Through Northern Africa
A major improvement could be made in the proposed European Missile Defense (EMD) system that the United States wishes to install to protect Europe from Iranian missile attacks, by increasing […]
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Space
‘Clean’ Shuttle Discovery Lands At Kennedy Space Center; No Shuttle Flights Slated For Almost Four Months
NASA Discusses Possible Manned Commercial Flights To Transport Crew To International Space Station Talks Commence On International Participation In U.S. Orion-Ares Missions To Moon, And Japan Also Hopes For Its […]
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Space
Bush, Brown, Sarkozy Hit Iranian Rejection Of No-Nuclear-Weapons Deal; Brown Says New Sanctions Being Imposed On Intractable Iran; Iran Hungers For Nukes, Bush Says; Sarkozy Terms That ‘Unacceptable’
President Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy unanimously condemned Iran for contemptuously rejecting incentives for it to surrender nuclear-weapons ambitions, saying that a nuclear-armed Iran […]
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Space
A.Q. Kahn Network Held Plans For Compact Nuclear Weapon That Easily Could Fit On Ballistic Missiles, Report Says
Authorities Don’t Know Whether Iran, North Korea Given Plans The A.Q. Kahn smuggling ring also held plans showing how to make compact nuclear weapons, precisely what rogue states such as […]
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Business/FinancialATK Combining Launch Systems, Space Systems Groups
Alliant Techsystems [ATK] said this week it is combining its Launch Systems and Space Systems Groups to put all of its space business under a single management structure and will […]
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Business/Financial
How Contractors Can Win Work From Space Agency: NASA Seeks Visionary Space Innovators To Brainstorm Future Homes, Offices, Vehicles, Roads To Be Built On Moon
Contractors, Others, Are Briefed On Requirements To Create A Lunar Community; What The Stylish Spacewalker Will Wear For A Stroll Through Town Designing Habitat Is Challenging: How To Supply Air […]
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Homeland SecuritySuccessful Aegis System Test Opens Door To New Capability; Will Aegis Compete With Ground-Based Midcourse System?
A successful test last week of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system and its Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptor opens the door to new capabilities and missions for the […]