Space & Missile Defense Report
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SpaceNASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
Updated — January 23, 2009 – 2:45 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Feb. 4 Mission:NOAA-N Prime Launch […]
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Business/FinancialU.S. Forces Repositioned To Counter Growing Chinese Military Might, Gates Says
American Moves Underway To Take On Growing Chinese Cyber Threat U.S. forces are being repositioned to counter burgeoning Chinese military power, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told the Senate Armed […]
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Business/Financial
Boeing Gains $75 Million Air Force TSAT Contract; Total Sum Now $739 Million
The Air Force gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a $75 million contract extension to continue risk reduction and system definition for the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT), making a total […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Issues Request For Proposals, Seeking Ideas For Altair Moon Lander
NASA issued a request for proposals for the Altair lunar lander that will transport astronauts from the next-generation Orion space capsule (crew exploration vehicle) orbiting the moon down to the […]
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Business/Financial
Arianespace Orders Astrium To Produce 35 Ariane 5 Heavy Lifter Rockets; New Pact Is Worth $5.12 Billion, With Output To Start Next Year
Arianespace ordered Astrium, a unit of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., to produce 35 Ariane 5 heavy lift rockets, the companies announced. The contract, signed at the European Space […]
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Business/Financial
NASA To Launch Carbon-Sleuthing Satellite At 1:51 A.M. PT Feb. 23
NASA will launch a satellite that will measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and track down its source, with liftoff on a Taurus XL rocket set for 1:51 a.m. PT […]
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Business/Financial
Taiwan To Get Patriot Upgrade In $154 Million Foreign Military Sales Contract With Raytheon
The U.S. Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $154 million foreign military sales contract for Taiwan to receive Patriot upgrades, the company announced. That move comes as China continues objecting […]
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[February 2, 2009]
// PDF View- Special Gates Issue: Defense Secretary Sees New Opportunity To Gain Russian Assent For European Missile Defense
- Gates Says Defense Spending Cuts Are Inevitable In Big-Ticket Programs
- Levin Moving To Cut Missile Defense, Shipbuilding Procurement Programs
- U.S. Forces Repositioned To Counter Growing Chinese Military Might, Gates Says
- NASA Issues Request For Proposals, Seeking Ideas For Altair Moon Lander
- NASA To Launch Carbon-Sleuthing Satellite At 1:51 A.M. PT Feb. 23
- Russia Again Offering A Deal To Obama: Kill U.S.-European Missile Defense Plan, And Russia Won’t Deploy Iskander Missiles
- Chilling Thought: Will Iran Ensure Strong Control Of Nuke Missiles? Or Could Rogue Officer Launch One?
- No End Seen To Hamas Missile Attacks On Israel, Though Obama Picking Mitchell Seen As Good Move; Hamas Rearming
- Defense Contractors Have Options To Lessen Sting Of Threatened Defense Spending Reductions
- Transcript: Excerpts Of Secretary Of Defense Gates Speaking To Congress On Missile Defense; United States Is Countering Chinese Buildup
- NASA Selects Researchers To Observe Spacecraft Crashing Into Lunar Surface
- Space Shuttle Discovery To Launch At 7:32 A.M. ET Feb. 12 From Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A
- NASA To Launch NOAA-N Satellite At 2:22 A.M. Wednesday Atop Delta II Rocket From Vandenberg
- Ares I-X Rocket Component Passes Separation Test
- Russians Postpone Sun-Scanning Satellite Launch Indefinitely
- ATACMS Works In British Launchers
- Two Target Ground Vehicles Delivered
- NASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- Boeing Gains $75 Million Air Force TSAT Contract; Total Sum Now $739 Million
- Arianespace Orders Astrium To Produce 35 Ariane 5 Heavy Lifter Rockets; New Pact Is Worth $5.12 Billion, With Output To Start Next Year
- Taiwan To Get Patriot Upgrade In $154 Million Foreign Military Sales Contract With Raytheon
- Raytheon Names New Space Business Chief
- Chandra Observatory Finds Galaxy With Hot Young Stars In One Neighborhood, Walled Off From Geriatric Area
- Support Sought For Rapid Small Satellite Facility
- SBIRS Satellite Software Test Succeeds
- Building At Kennedy Ready For Work On Orion
- Prototype Ground Control System Controls GPS Test Satellite: Northrop
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Business/Financial
Russia 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 […]