Space & Missile Defense Report
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InternationalNASA Brainstorms Lunar Outpost Concepts With Other Nations
NASA policymakers met with leaders of foreign space agencies to mull the shape of a network of science stations that might be placed on the moon. Leaders of nine space […]
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[August 4, 2008]
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- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Finishes Environmental Tests
- Early Warning Satellite Decommissioned After Insertion To Wrong Orbit, Limited Use
- Boeing Gains DARPA Contract For Spacecraft Electric Power, Propulsion Capability
- Contracts
- Launches
- NASA Brainstorms Lunar Outpost Concepts With Other Nations
- Far More Destroyers, Cruisers, Must Be Converted To Advanced Aegis Missile Defense
- Job Losses Already Set For Lockheed Employees As Space Shuttle Fleet To Retire By 2010
- U.S. Hasn’t Frozen Arms Sale To Taiwan, Its Legislative Leader Says
- Iran Defies Urgings From Nations Across Globe, Refuses To Abandon Its Nuclear Production Work
- Glenn: Why Go Back To Moon To Construct A Waystation? Why Not Go Directly To Mars?
- NASA Budget Would Be 70 Percent Higher If It Kept Pace With Inflation
- Self-Assembling Crane Stands Poised For Construction Job At Worksite: The Moon
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Business/FinancialLaunches
Another Major Loss For SpaceX As Falcon 1 Suffers Separation Failure During Ascent Space X Still Has More Missions Planned, And It Remains Set To Provide Commercial Transport Services To […]
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Business/Financial
Contracts
NASA Contracts Aim For Lunar Surface Systems Concepts The Constellation Program developing the next-generation U.S. spacecraft system Orion-Ares selected 11 companies and a university to each develop concepts that contribute […]
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Business/Financial
Contracts
ATK Gets $16.4 Million Order For Missile Warning System The Navy gave Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] $16.4 million of orders for the AAR-47 A(V)2 warning system that protects aircraft against […]
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SpaceTHEMIS Spacecraft Ferrets Out Cause Of Northern Lights Dance
Why do the Northern Lights brighten, dim and dance? Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Briefs Hundreds Of Contractor Representatives On Impending Information Technology Contract Opportunities
NASA, one of the biggest computer users on — and off — the planet is about to make some sweeping changes in its Herculean computer networks, and that will mean […]
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Business/Financial
MUOS Ground Station Antenna System Installed
A ground station antenna system for the Mobile User Objective System was installed in Hawaii for data exchanges with satellites, General Dynamics Corp. [GD] announced. A GD unit, C4 Systems, […]
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Business/Financial
Op-Ed: Navy Deep-Sixes Stealthy DDG 1000 Destroyer Even As China Wields Hundreds Of Ship-Killer Missiles
By Dave Ahearn Just as China has deployed hundreds of missiles aimed at the Taiwan Strait, the U.S. Navy is moving to abandon production of cutting-edge DDG 1000 destroyers with […]
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International
Russia Engages In New Muscle-Flexing With Missile Cruiser Patrols In Arctic Waters
A newly belligerent Russia has begun guided-missile cruiser patrols in northern waters, as Moscow reverts to some of its old Cold War practices. The cruiser patrols near the Norwegian archipelago […]