Space & Missile Defense Report
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Business/FinancialSBIRS 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 […]
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InternationalESA Now Sets GOCE Launch For Oct. 27
The European Space Agency (ESA) and European companies have now set the launch of the GOCE satellite for Oct. 27, ESA announced. On Sept. 7, preparations for launch of GOCE […]
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Space
NASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
Updated — September 29 – 2:20 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: October + Mission: TacSat-3 Launch Vehicle: […]
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[October 6, 2008]
// PDF View- Taiwan Seeks PAC-3 Missiles As Part Of $6.4 Billion Plan To Buy American Weapons
- Missile Defense Required To Counter Increasing Threat Posed By China, State Department Study Finds: Report
- Missile Defense Urgently Needed To Counter Widespread And Rising Ballistic Missile Threat
- NASA, Bidding To Save Money By Retiring Space Shuttles, Will Face Heretofore Hidden Costs: GAO
- Biden, Palin See Critical Dangers In Nuclear-Armed Iran, Pakistan
- Northrop Breaks Ground On New Wallops Island Facility
- NASA Taps 10 Science Teams For Studies
- Messenger Spacecraft Again Flies By Mercury
- Russia Delivers Smerch Rocket Launchers To India
- Contracts
- NASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ESA Now Sets GOCE Launch For Oct. 27
- Space Shuttle Discovery Now May Replace Endeavour On Rescue Duty For Atlantis
- IBEX Spacecraft To Launch Oct. 19 From Kwajalein Atoll On Mission To Study Solar System-Galaxy Limits
- Dangers In Iran Have Been Downplayed; Iranian Military Forces Aren’t Rogue Units, But Rather Are Part Of Iranian Government
- Congress Passes R&D Tax Credit Extension; Industry Sought Action To Aid Investment
- Geospatial Intelligence Leader Sees Rising Use Of Commercial Satellites For Intelligence Gathering Work
- European Space Agency Sets Sights On Converting Automated Transfer Vehicles To Manned Transport Duty
- SBIRS Cost Overruns Likely To Exceed $414 Million, And Delays To Exceed Estimates Of 15 Months, GAO Reports