Space & Missile Defense Report
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Business/FinancialBoeing Submits Altair Lunar Lander Proposal
The Boeing Co. [BA] gave NASA a proposal for Altair lunar lander design support. NASA is expected to award multiple contracts this spring. The lunar lander, part of the Constellation […]
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Business/Financial
Sen. Levin Doubtful About Need For Airborne Laser Missile Defense System
Levin Sees Opportunity For Developing European Missile Defense Jointly With Russia Senator: Iranian President Ahmadinejad May Not Be Deterred By U.S. Retaliation Threat From Launching Missile Attack Sen. Carl Levin […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Gives Oceaneering International $9.6 Million Initial Spacesuit Contract; Full Pact To Be Negotiated By August
NASA gave Oceaneering International Inc. an interim letter contract for the next-generation American spacesuit. Oceaneering, of Houston, will begin work on designing, developing and producing a new spacesuit system for […]
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Business/Financial
Rep. Tauscher Suggests Slashing Ground-based Missile Defense, Others, In Letter To Pentagon Leader
The United States should cut funding for the Ground-based Missile Defense program that aims to take down long-range incoming enemy missiles, focusing instead of systems that counter short- and medium-range […]
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Business/Financial
Bell, Boeing, Sikorsky To Vie For Task Orders In NASA Rotary Wing Development Contract
NASA selected Bell Helicopter Textron, The Boeing Co. [BA] and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a unit of United Technologies Corp. [UTX] to compete for task orders in a total $40 million […]
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Business/Financial
Missile Defense Agency Set To Increase Testing Of Ballistic Missile Defense Systems As Some Lawmakers Challenge Testing Adequacy
Republicans Assert Testing Issue A Pretext Democrats Use To Justify Slashing Funds For Missile Defense In Fiscal 2010 Budget Cuts That Harm Ground-based Missile Defense Program Would Weaken U.S. Defense […]
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Business/Financial
AsiaSat 5 To Launch On ILS Proton In July-September Quarter
The AsiaSat 5 satellite will launch on an ILS Proton lifter in the July-September quarter, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) announced. Previously, the company had announced AsiaSat 5 would […]
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Business/Financial
Proposed Cuts To Ground-based Midcourse Defense, Airborne Laser, Kinetic Energy Interceptor Imperil Nation
Deferring Or Killing Some Missile Defense Programs Gambles Cities Won’t Be Lost Some members of Congress are considering cuts in ballistic missile defense programs that amount to a gamble that […]
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Business/Financial
ATK Gains $90 Million Trident II Solid Rocket Contract
Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] gave Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] a $90 million contract to provide solid rocket propulsion systems for the three stages of the Navy Trident II D-5 fleet […]
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Business/Financial
Budget Reaction: Cutting Funds For GMD Could Harm Capability Just As Iran, North Korea, Pose Growing Threats
ABL Cuts Would Come After Program Has Seen Major Progress, Successes Cutting funding for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system or the Airborne Laser (ABL) could harm U.S. attempts to […]