Space & Missile Defense Report
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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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Business/FinancialLaunches
Ariane 5 Lofts ProtoStar I And BADR-6 Satellites Into Orbit An Ariane 5 heavy lift rocket lifted off from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, South America, and carried two […]
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[July 14, 2008]
// PDF View- Tests Completed On First GPS IIF Satellite
- Contracts
- Launches
- NASA, European Space Agency, Mull Cooperation On Programs, Technologies, For Missions To The Moon
- Could Adding Rockets Make International Space Station An Interplanetary Spaceship For Voyage To Mars?
- Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk To Trouble-Shoot Soyuz Spacecraft, Removing Suspect Pyro Bolt
- Boeing Space Competing For $14 Billion Of Contracts; Backlog Of Existing Work $6 Billion To $7 Billion; Boeing Consulting Lawmakers On GOES-R Funding
- U.S. Leaders Need To Discuss Why U.S. Procurement Is Open To Overseas Wares, While Some Foreign Acquisition Programs Are Closed To U.S. Products: Aide
- China Develops Medium-Range Missile That Can Kill U.S. Aircraft Carriers
- Silence Signals World Approval Of Israeli Air Strike To Take Out Syrian Nuclear Reactor
- Iran Gaining Greater Capability To Launch Overwhelming Missile Attack That Would Defeat Israeli Defense Systems
- U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Systems Could Thwart Terrorist Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack: Analyst
- Bush, Medvedev, Discuss European Missile Defense But Still Differ
- Halfway There: Czech Republic Signs Documents Providing European Missile Defense Radar Site
- NASA Issues New Space Shuttle Missions Manifest That Leaves Enough Room For An Added Launch
- Iran Launches Missiles In Mass Salvo Tests; One Iranian Missile Seen Having 1,900-Mile Range; Israel In Crosshairs; Rep. Franks Condemns Bellicosity
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SpaceTests Completed On First GPS IIF Satellite
Testing is complete on the first of a dozen GPS IIF satellites, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Those environmental tests confirm mechanical integrity of the spacecraft. The program is on […]
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CongressIran Launches Missiles In Mass Salvo Tests; One Iranian Missile Seen Having 1,900-Mile Range; Israel In Crosshairs; Rep. Franks Condemns Bellicosity
McCain Says Iranian Missile Salvo Proves Need For Construction Of European Missile Defense System; Obama Urges More Talks With Iran, Further Sanctions United States Will Protect Allies Such As Israel […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Issues New Space Shuttle Missions Manifest That Leaves Enough Room For An Added Launch
NASA unveiled a new schedule of remaining missions for the space shuttle fleet before its scheduled retirement in October 2010, a manifest that ends with four idle months where an […]
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Homeland Security
Halfway There: Czech Republic Signs Documents Providing European Missile Defense Radar Site
Czech Parliament Still Has Not Ratified Deal Poland Moving To Bolster Talks On Granting Permission For Missile Interceptors Site Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza […]
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Homeland Security
Bush, Medvedev, Discuss European Missile Defense But Still Differ
Agreement Voiced On Rogue States Such As Iran, North Korea President Bush and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Europe, but failed […]
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Congress
U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Systems Could Thwart Terrorist Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack: Analyst
Rep. Bartlett Urges Government To Counter EMP Danger EMP Would Bring Down Planes, Threaten Vehicles, Kill 90 Percent Of U.S. Population Within Year Of Attack U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]