Space & Missile Defense Report
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SpaceNASA Spacecraft Finds Firm Evidence Of Now-Gone Vast Rivers, Lakes On Mars
New evidence shows that Mars once had immense quantities of water, the vital and indispensable substance of life requisite for any sustained human settlement of the red planet. Water is […]
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Business/FinancialObering Says Other Nations Interested In Airborne Laser System
Boeing 747 Does Well In ABL Work; MDA Not Seeking Different Plane Some friendly nations have shown interest in acquiring the U.S. Airborne Laser (ABL) system to defend themselves from […]
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Homeland Security
Operationally Responsive Space: A Good Idea, But Combatants, Intelligence/Space Community, Differ As To What It Should Be
The concept of operationally responsive space (ORS) is widely endorsed, but there are differences between the combatant commanders and the intelligence/space community as to just what ORS should be, according […]
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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
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Space
Academic To Be President Of American Enterprise Institute Think Tank
A university professor has been named president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank in Washington that focuses on defense and other issues. Arthur C. Brooks, the […]
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Business/Financial
Phoenix Spacecraft Healthy, Solar Arrays Produce More Power Than Expected
The Phoenix Mars Lander is performing well, with its solar arrays generating more electricity than expected so that Phoenix hours of operation each day can be extended, Lockheed Martin Corp. […]