Space & Missile Defense Report
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Business/FinancialNorth Korea Prepares To Launch Missile Saturday, Claims It’s Merely Satellite Launch; Analysts Skeptical
Shorter-Range Missiles Also May Launch North Korea as early as Saturday plans to launch a missile that it says will orbit a satellite, but which many military analysts say will […]
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CongressPentagon Report Says Chinese Military Buildup Raises Disturbing Questions About Long-Range Aims
China says its massive military buildup is only for defensive purposes or for local wars, but its actions cast doubt on that claim, according to a new report by the […]
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Business/Financial
Even If Airborne Laser Is Canceled, Northrop Sees Potential Use For Laser
Even if the Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense system is cut deeply or canceled, the laser system may survive by finding other uses, a Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] executive said. […]
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Business/Financial
Obama Touts Defense Acquisition ‘Reform’ While Lashing Acquisition Cost Overruns; But He Says Outlays On Veterans To Rise
President Poised To Whack $40 Billion From Defense Procurement Programs President Obama flailed defense procurement programs afflicted by soaring costs, and said it is time for defense acquisition reform, echoing […]
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SpaceNASA Fly-When-Ready Policy Dovetails With Congressional Move To Drop Deadline For Ceasing to Operate Space Shuttles
NASA will fly each space shuttle mission only when it’s ready to fly safely, an approach that dovetails with a pending congressional plan saying the space shuttle fleet doesn’t necessarily […]
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Business/Financial
Space Symposium Highlights: 2008 World Space Economy Up $6 Billion To $257 Billion
Boeing Briefs On Satellites, Missile Defense, Others Northrop, NASA Detail LCROSS The world space economy increased by almost 2.5 percent, or $6 billion, to $257 billion last year, amidst the […]
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[March 30, 2009]
// PDF View- Triple Tango: Space Shuttle Discovery Lands, Space Shuttle Atlantis Goes To Pad, Soyuz Docks With Space Station To Deliver Fresh Crew
- Franks: Severe Budget Cuts Would Harm United States, Create Vulnerabilities To Attacks By Proliferating Enemy Missiles
- North Korea Prepares To Launch Missile Saturday, Claims It’s Merely Satellite Launch; Analysts Skeptical
- Pentagon Report Says Chinese Military Buildup Raises Disturbing Questions About Long-Range Aims
- Even If Airborne Laser Is Canceled, Northrop Sees Potential Use For Laser
- Obama Touts Defense Acquisition ‘Reform’ While Lashing Acquisition Cost Overruns; But He Says Outlays On Veterans To Rise
- NASA Fly-When-Ready Policy Dovetails With Congressional Move To Drop Deadline For Ceasing to Operate Space Shuttles
- Space Symposium Highlights: 2008 World Space Economy Up $6 Billion To $257 Billion
- Successful Test: Aegis-SM System Takes Down Two Missiles At A Time; Terminal Phase Of Flight At Issue
- AMRAAM Air Defense Missile Fired Using HIMARS Launcher At White Sands
- Minisatellites Being Developed To Test Hardened GPS Electronics And Intel-Surveillance Capabilities
- NASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- Boeing May Gain $400 Million-Plus Intelsat Order For Four Satellites
- Czech Government Falls, Raising Questions About Missile Defense
- Orion Space Capsule Mockup On View Today In Front Of Smithsonian Air And Space Museum
- First Moon Landing: 40th Anniversary Celebration Is Set For July 20
- NPOESS Passes Critical Design Audit
- Lockheed Setting Up Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory Testing Sats
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Business/Financial
Successful Test: Aegis-SM System Takes Down Two Missiles At A Time; Terminal Phase Of Flight At Issue
The Aegis weapon control system and Standard Missile interceptors took down two missiles simultaneously, in an exercise called Stellar Daggers. Interceptors from the USS Benfold (DDG 65) took out a […]
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Business/Financial
AMRAAM Air Defense Missile Fired Using HIMARS Launcher At White Sands
Two Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) launched from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. Lockheed makes HIMARS, while AMRAAM was a product of Hughes […]
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Business/Financial
Minisatellites Being Developed To Test Hardened GPS Electronics And Intel-Surveillance Capabilities
Five mini satellites will be developed at the University of Florida aided by $450,000 contributed this year by Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], the company announced. The satellites will investigate technological […]