Space & Missile Defense Report
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Homeland Security
U.S. Needs Organization Like Missile Defense Agency To Foster Anti-Cruise-Missile System
United States Faces Daunting Cruise Missiles Proliferation, So Cutting Costs Of Cruise Missile Defense Systems Is Imperative: Analyst Would Laser Missile Defense Systems Be Far Cheaper Solution Than Interceptors? The […]
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Air ForceExpert Panel Sees Directed Energy Attacks Against Satellites Likely, But Extremely Difficult To Detect, Retaliate Against
Analyst: U.S. Satellites Likely To Be Hit In A Hot War The United States must prepare for war in space, because any enemy nation will be tempted to offset the […]
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SpaceNASA Offers New Website With Stunning Pictures Of Space, Mars, Earth
If you love space pictures, including shots of the big blue marble, you have to see this. Did we mention that it’s free? An immense gallery of space pictures now […]
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Business/FinancialElectric Space Propulsion Demonstrated For TSAT
If we can have electric cars, why not electric rockets and satellites? We can. An electric propulsion system for use on satellites in the Air Force Transformational Satellite Communications System […]
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Business/Financial
Parachute For Ares First Stage Motor Passes Test
The drogue parachute for the Ares I first stage motor passed a drop test, NASA announced. NASA and industry engineers performed the test. The drogue parachute is designed to slow […]
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Business/Financial
Launches
Sea Launch Boosts EchoStar XI Satellite To Orbit Sea Launch, the mobile seagoing launch platform, saw a Zenit-3SL rocket blast off to deliver the EchoStar XI broadcast satellite into orbit, […]
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Business/Financial
Boeing Finishes Design Of Anti-Rocket Laser For Army
The Boeing Co. [BA] completed preliminary design of a rugged beam control system for the Army High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD) program, a truck-mounted asset that counters rocket, […]
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Business/Financial
Contracts
ATK, Lockheed, Northrop Join To Pursue Multi-Role Weapons Contracts Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK], Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] and Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced they signed a teaming agreement to jointly […]
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Space
Johns Hopkins APL Leader To Head Goddard Space Flight Center
Rob Strain, head of the space department at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, will become the new Goddard Space Flight Center director, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced. Strain […]
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[July 21, 2008]
// PDF View- Phoenix Spacecraft Healthy, Solar Arrays Produce More Power Than Expected
- Academic To Be President Of American Enterprise Institute Think Tank
- Johns Hopkins APL Leader To Head Goddard Space Flight Center
- Contracts
- Boeing Finishes Design Of Anti-Rocket Laser For Army
- Launches
- Operationally Responsive Space: A Good Idea, But Combatants, Intelligence/Space Community, Differ As To What It Should Be
- Obering Says Other Nations Interested In Airborne Laser System
- NASA Spacecraft Finds Firm Evidence Of Now-Gone Vast Rivers, Lakes On Mars
- Multi-Nation Summit Of Space Agency Heads Reflects
- Scanners Not Sure To Detect All Smuggled Nuclear Weapons Bound For United States, Government Watchdog Tells Congress
- Obering Sees Iran Able To Hit U. S. Targets By 2015 To 2017
- Expert Panel Sees Directed Energy Attacks Against Satellites Likely, But Extremely Difficult To Detect, Retaliate Against
- NASA Still Planning Commercial, Not Japanese, Cargo Transport To Space Station
- U.S. Guarantees To Protect Czechs From Russian Attack On Radar