Space & Missile Defense Report
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Business/FinancialRaytheon Sees Vast New Opportunity For Standard Missile-3 Marketing With Land-Based SM-3s In VLS Tubes
The United States could gain a premier land-based missile defense interceptor, quickly and at low cost, merely by making the currently sea-based Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors land-based assets as well, […]
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Business/Financial
Lockheed Takes On Boeing In Fight Over Ground-Based Missile Defense System
GMD System Operations And Sustainment At Stake; Missile Defense Agency Contract Sought Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will take on The Boeing Co. [BA] in a fight for an operations and […]
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Business/Financial
Ares I-X Hardware Arrives At Launch Site Even As Obama Considers Killing Ares Lifter
The Ares I-X rocket is taking shape even as President Obama is considering killing the Ares I program in favor of using an existing military rocket, ignoring protests from space […]
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SpaceBrilliant Astronaut Resigns From NASA
U.S. Human Space Travel Ends Next Year NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski is leaving the agency to take a job in the private sector. Parazynski, a medical doctor, is a veteran […]
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[March 23, 2009]
// PDF View- Spacewalkers Attach Final Solar Array System To International Space Station, See Arrays Fully Deploy; Station Now Reaches Full Size
- Military Officers: Missile Defense Works; When North Korea Launches Missile, High Probability U.S. Forces Can Knock It Down
- Missile Defense Deters Threats, General States; Successful Tests Raise Confidence It Works; Programs Should Continue: General
- Rationale Disconnect: Missile Defense Foes Advance Conflicting Arguments On ABL, GMD
- Rep. Tauscher To Leave House Armed Services Committee For Administration Post
- Special Missile Defense Conference Issue: Tauscher Says European Missile Defense To Wait Until After Ground-based Midcourse Defense Tests
- Airborne Laser System Endangered By Looming Budget Cuts, Lawmakers Say
- Deep Missile Defense Cuts Would Toss Tens Of Thousands Of Workers Out Of Good Jobs Amidst Economic Recession
- Northrop Official Sees Possible Cuts In Ballistic Missile Program Budgets
- Another Missile Defense Success: THAAD Kills Target Missile
- Government Gambles Johnson Space Center Won’t Be Hit By Big Storm — Hurricane Rita Repairs Funded, But Preventive Work Unfunded
- Czech Republic Parliamentary Chamber Cancels Vote To Authorize European Missile Defense System Radar Installation
- Cartwright Says Missile Defense Systems Must Be Able To Perform Multiple Missions; Urges Common Use Of Sensors For Systems
- Raytheon Sees Vast New Opportunity For Standard Missile-3 Marketing With Land-Based SM-3s In VLS Tubes
- Ares I-X Hardware Arrives At Launch Site Even As Obama Considers Killing Ares Lifter
- If Iran Goes Nuclear, It Deals A Blow To Nonproliferation Efforts Globally
- China Ends Harassment Of U.S. Ship, Saves Face By Saying Obama Calmed Situation Caused By Rogue U.S. Officers
- North Korea Drags Out Promised Dismantling Of Nuclear Reactor: General
- Partial Transcript Of Rep. Tauscher’s Remarks To Missile Defense Conference And Journalists:
- Obama Clears Fine Grain Graphite Exports; Used For Solar Cells, Computer Chips, Airliners; Export Controls On Key Technology At Issue
- Commander Says Nothing Could Have Prevented Iridium-Cosmos Collision
- Proton To Launch IndoStar II/ProtoStar II Satellite Built By Boeing
- GPS Satellite Launches Successfully
- Indian Space Researd Organization Launches Satellite Designed With Input From Israelis: Jerusalem Post
- Payload Added To Loral Launch
- NASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- Space Tourist Simonyi To Launch Thursday On Soyuz For Record-Setting Second Space Tourist Flight To Station
- Russia May Place Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missiles On Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines: Russian News Report
- Raytheon Gains $106 Million Pact Providing JSOWs To Navy, Allies
- Raytheon Receives $23 Million Maverick Missiles Contract
- Lockheed Takes On Boeing In Fight Over Ground-Based Missile Defense System
- Brilliant Astronaut Resigns From NASA
- Laser Power Hits 105 Kilowatts, Northrop Announces
- Boeing Demonstrates High-Energy Laser
- India Finds New Bacteria In Stratosphere
- Hyslop To Head Boeing Missile Defense Systems
- NOAA-N Satellite Completes Checkout
- Lockheed Opening Altair Program Office in Texas
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Business/Financial
If Iran Goes Nuclear, It Deals A Blow To Nonproliferation Efforts Globally
If the already existing Iranian nuclear materials production program ends with Tehran wielding nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver them, that grim situation will be made even worse, […]
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Business/Financial
Laser Power Hits 105 Kilowatts, Northrop Announces
A military laser set a record by reaching 105 kilowatts, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The company used a scalable building block strategy in the test, which was the final […]
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InternationalSpacewalkers Attach Final Solar Array System To International Space Station, See Arrays Fully Deploy; Station Now Reaches Full Size
Space Shuttle Discovery To Return To Kennedy At 1:14 P.M. ET Saturday; President Obama Chats With Crew Shuttle, Station Have To Dodge Debris In Cluttered Space Environment Spacewalking astronauts attached […]
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Homeland Security
China Ends Harassment Of U.S. Ship, Saves Face By Saying Obama Calmed Situation Caused By Rogue U.S. Officers
China ended its harassment of a U.S. Navy ship, but saved face by portraying its backing down as a response to actions by President Obama. A Chinese news organization, the […]
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Business/Financial
Boeing Demonstrates High-Energy Laser
The Boeing Co. [BA] demonstrated its Re-Deployable High-Energy Laser System (RHELS) by quickly relocating the prototype weapon system from its Albuquerque development site to a test range, where it tracked […]