Space & Missile Defense Report
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Business/FinancialFalcon 9 Rocket Now Fully Assembled At Cape Canaveral: SpaceX
Liftoff Seen Soon A Falcon 9 rocket has been fully integrated at Cape Canaveral, Fla., poised for a liftoff early this year, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, announced. The […]
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Business/Financial
Boeing Gains $397.9 Million Contract To Continue Ground-based Midcourse Defense Program For Only Six Months
Long-Term Contract To Be Decided In Impending Obama Administration The Missile Defense Agency gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a cost-plus-award-fee contract worth up to $397.9 million to continue the Ground-base […]
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Homeland Security
Missile Defense Modeling And Simulation Advances
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has advanced modeling and simulation for missile defense testing, the agency announced. MDA oversaw successful execution of Flight Support Ground Test 03b (GTF-03b). The GTF-03b […]
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Business/Financial
GAO Denies Raytheon Protest Of Sole-Source Aegis Mod Contract To Lockheed Martin
Systems Upgrading Work Will Proceed On Navy Destroyers , Cruisers The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied Raytheon Co. [RTN] protests against several sole-source, non-competitive contracts that the Navy earmarked for […]
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SpaceLunar Orbiter Passes Thermal Vacuum Test
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, completed thermal vacuum testing, NASA announced. Those tests simulate extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space that LRO will experience after launch. This […]
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Homeland Security
Israel Entered Gaza Strip Only After Being Hit By Thousands Of Hamas Missiles
Hamas terrorists fired more than 3,000 rockets and mortars into Israel during the past year, which included a cease-fire period, according to the Israel Project, a Washington- based backer of […]
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Business/Financial
Lockheed Delivers Subsystems For SBIRS Geo-2 Satellite
Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the spacecraft bus subsystems for the emergent Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, Lockheed announced. It will be the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) satellite in the […]
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[January 5, 2009]
// PDF View- Air Force Shuts Down TSAT Competition; New RFP To Be Issued For SatCom System
- Griffin Tells Lockheed Chief To Stop Trying To Kill Future Ares I Rocket In Order To Gain More ULA Rocket Orders
- NASA Gives $3.5 Billion-To-$6.2 Billion Space Flight Contracts To Orbital, SpaceX
- Boeing Gains $397.9 Million Contract To Continue Ground-based Midcourse Defense Program For Only Six Months
- GAO Denies Raytheon Protest Of Sole-Source Aegis Mod Contract To Lockheed Martin
- Israel Entered Gaza Strip Only After Being Hit By Thousands Of Hamas Missiles
- If Israel Had Full Missile Defense System, It Wouldn’t Have To Enter Gaza Strip
- Report Details Causes Of Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster; Some Unknowns Remain, Panel Finds
- Arianespace Plans For Three Satellite Launches
- Ariane 5 Launches Two Satellites
- Russia Launches Three Glonass-M Satellites On Proton Rocket
- NLOS System Precision Attack Missile Completes Third Test
- NASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- Raytheon Gains Up To $3.3 Billion Patriot Order For UAE
- Space Systems/Loral Finalizes Contract To Provide Satellite To Intelsat For 2010 Launch
- Lockheed Gains $371.6 Million Contract For GMLRS Program
- Mars Rovers Spirit, Opportunity Still Going After Five Years, 20 Times Their Design Lives
- NASA Disputes Report That White House Killed U.S.-China Space Cooperation Deal
- Falcon 9 Rocket Now Fully Assembled At Cape Canaveral: SpaceX
- Missile Defense Modeling And Simulation Advances
- Lunar Orbiter Passes Thermal Vacuum Test
- Lockheed Delivers Subsystems For SBIRS Geo-2 Satellite
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Business/Financial
If Israel Had Full Missile Defense System, It Wouldn’t Have To Enter Gaza Strip
The value of missile defense systems has been proven by the unending torrent of missiles that Hamas has launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip, a U.S. missile defense expert […]
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Space
Report Details Causes Of Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster; Some Unknowns Remain, Panel Finds
A new report from a study panel details the causes leading to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, with the panel recommending many corrective and preventive moves to avert […]