Space & Missile Defense Report
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Homeland Security
Russia Forms Air Defense Pact With Belarus
Russia and Belarus will form an air defense system, under an agreement they signed, Itar-Tass reported. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised the planned system as increasing security of both countries. […]
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[February 9, 2009]
// PDF View- Space Shuttle Discovery Suffers Parts Glitch; Feb. 12 Launch Date Now Delayed To No Earlier Than Feb. 22, So Probe Can Proceed
- Iran Launches Satellite Into Space; It Reaches U.S. Airspace In 30 Minutes; North Korea Poised For ICBM Capability
- Analysts Say Czech Republic, Poland Betrayed If Obama Abandons European Missile Shield; U.S. Friendship To Be Seen Worthless
- Editorials Lash North Korea, Iran, See Time Of Testing For Obama
- Obama Should Use Stimulus Funds To Bolster Defense Procurement, Creating Jobs
- China Seen Continuing 12 To 18 Percent Annual Defense Spending Increases: Analyst
- Germany Seeks Secondary MEADS Missile, IRIS-T SL
- Industry Group Proposes Defense Acquisition Reform
- Russia Forms Air Defense Pact With Belarus
- Obering Joins Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance Board
- GeoEye Begins Commercial Operations Of GeoEye-1 Satellite
- Radar Tracks A Satellite, Heads To Operational Status
- Hispasat Hires Arianespace To Launch Comms Satellite On Ariane 5 Late Next Year
- Ariane 5 Heavy Lifter To Orbit Arabsat 5C, 6B
- NOAA-N Satellite Launched After Postponement
- Ariane 5s To Launch Two Thales Alenia Satellites For Gazprom
- Orbital Comms Satellite To Launch Thursday Atop Ariane 5 Lifter
- NASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- Boeing Garners $250 Million Missile Defense Contract For Ground-based Midcourse System
- Lockheed Gains $31.3 Million Contract For M299 Launchers
- Raytheon Submits Proposal For NOAA Ground Segment Of GOES-R Satellite
- New JSOW Warhead Tested
- Cryocooler To Aid Data Collection On Space Missions
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Homeland Security
Obering Joins Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance Board
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry "Trey" Obering III, who stepped down as director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in November, has joined the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance advisory […]
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Business/FinancialRussia Again Offering A Deal To Obama: Kill U.S.-European Missile Defense Plan, And Russia Won’t Deploy Iskander Missiles
Russians Think Obama Could Kill Planned European Missile Defense Without Seeming To Cave To Moscow Russia, testing the newly-inaugurated U.S. President Obama, has anew offered a deal: if the United […]
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Business/Financial
Raytheon Names New Space Business Chief
Raytheon Co. [RTN] named William Hart to leads its space business. Hart, who joined Raytheon in 1975, was named vice president for Space Systems. He succeeds Brian Arnold, who was […]
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Business/Financial
Chilling Thought: Will Iran Ensure Strong Control Of Nuke Missiles? Or Could Rogue Officer Launch One?
Iran likely will establish some sort of controls on firing the nuclear-tipped missiles it seems bent upon developing, but a worrisome factor is that Iran has been decentralizing once-rigid control […]
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SpaceChandra Observatory Finds Galaxy With Hot Young Stars In One Neighborhood, Walled Off From Geriatric Area
The Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted a galaxy where hot young stars abound in one neighborhood, segregated from another area of older material. The new study unveils NGC 604, the […]
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Business/Financial
No End Seen To Hamas Missile Attacks On Israel, Though Obama Picking Mitchell Seen As Good Move; Hamas Rearming
No end is seen to Hamas continuing rocket and missile attacks on Israel, even though Israeli forces bombed some of the tunnels from Egypt to the Gaza Strip through which […]
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Business/Financial
Support Sought For Rapid Small Satellite Facility
The Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office recently released a request for information (RFI) to help accomplish the office develop a rapid response space center, called Chileworks. U.S. […]
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Business/Financial
Defense Contractors Have Options To Lessen Sting Of Threatened Defense Spending Reductions
Defense contactors have several moves they can make to lessen the brutal impact of impending defense spending cuts, according to Loren Thompson, COO of the Lexington Institute, a think tank […]