Space & Missile Defense Report
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Business/FinancialFuture Combat Systems Active Protection System Passes Interception Tests
The Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) projectile shield Active Protection System (APS) passed interception tests, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. Those tests involved both stationary and moving targets. APS defeats multiple […]
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Homeland Security
Missile Defense Required To Counter Increasing Threat Posed By China, State Department Study Finds: Report
China poses a rising ballistic missile threat that the United States should counter with improved systems including missile defense capabilities, a draft version of a State Department study concludes, according […]
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Business/Financial
Taiwan Seeks PAC-3 Missiles As Part Of $6.4 Billion Plan To Buy American Weapons
Taiwan is seeking to obtain more than $6.4 billion in American weapons including Patriot Advanced Capbility-3 (PAC-3) anti-missile interceptors, under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. The gigantic program also […]
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Business/Financial
SBIRS Cost Overruns Likely To Exceed $414 Million, And Delays To Exceed Estimates Of 15 Months, GAO Reports
Plans To Resolve Software Glitches Are Likely To Fall Short, Report States It likely will require more than an estimate $414 million in cost overruns and 15 months of delays […]
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Business/Financial
European Space Agency Sets Sights On Converting Automated Transfer Vehicles To Manned Transport Duty
First ATV Successfully De-Orbited, Burns Up As Planned In Reentry Astrium has provided the European Space Agency (ESA) with an option to convert the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) robotic cargo […]
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Business/Financial
Geospatial Intelligence Leader Sees Rising Use Of Commercial Satellites For Intelligence Gathering Work
Vice Adm. Murrett: U.S. Systems Can Detect Enemy Tunnels, Spot Individuals As They Walk U.S. intelligence efforts are using huge amounts of civilian space imaging capabilities, and that will continue, […]
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SpaceCongress Passes R&D Tax Credit Extension; Industry Sought Action To Aid Investment
Congress enacted a research and development tax credit extension that the aerospace industry had sought, a measure that was included in a larger bill to bail out portions of the […]
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Homeland Security
Dangers In Iran Have Been Downplayed; Iranian Military Forces Aren’t Rogue Units, But Rather Are Part Of Iranian Government
Some analysts and observers, who assert that certain especially dangerous military actors in Iran don’t really represent government views and motives, are dead wrong, a new paper states. In fact, […]
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Business/Financial
IBEX Spacecraft To Launch Oct. 19 From Kwajalein Atoll On Mission To Study Solar System-Galaxy Limits
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft will launch Oct. 19 from Kwajalein Atoll on a mission to study the heliopause boundary between the solar system and open galactic space, […]
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Space
Space Shuttle Discovery Now May Replace Endeavour On Rescue Duty For Atlantis
Space Shuttle Discovery may take the place of Space Shuttle Endeavour in performing standby life-guard duty when Space Shuttle Atlantis blasts off to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis was […]