Space & Missile Defense Report
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SpacePentagon Aide Declines To Say U.S. Would Defend Taiwan If China Launches Invasion; General Questions How Chinese Assets Such As Aircraft Carrier Can Be Merely Defensive
Chinese Missiles Threaten U.S. Navy Ships U.S. Fails To Match Chinese Arms Buildup: Witness The immense Chinese military buildup continues to run at a breakneck pace, and it is difficult […]
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Space
Flame Trench Damage At Launch Pad 39-A Extensive, But Repairs To Be Made Before Next Shuttle Launch
Backup Pad 39-B Found To Have Similar Deterioration, But Repairs Not Slated To Be Performed There: Briefers Damage to a flame trench at Launch Pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center […]
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Business/FinancialOfficial Says U.S. Space Industry Needs To Use Foreign Suppliers To Enter Foreign Markets; Commerce Department Agency To Be ‘Facilitator’ For U.S. Industry
Global demand for space-based capabilities will continue its rapid growth, and the U.S. government should aid U.S. industry as it seeks business overseas, a Commerce Department official said. Ed Morris, […]
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Business/Financial
Bartlett Hits Multi-Agency Setup For Delaying NPOESS; He Says System Rewards Contractors For Cost Overruns
The unending woes of the over-budget, under-performing, behind-schedule National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) may have been inevitable even before the program began, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) indicated. Not […]
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Homeland Security
Iranian Nuclear Program May Mean That Israel Loses Its Trump Card As A Unique Nuclear-Armed Middle Eastern Nation
Iran, as it continues to produce nuclear materials that might be used to assemble nuclear weapons, threatens to end Israel’s singular role as a nuclear-armed nation in the region, a […]
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SpacePhoenix Lander Discovers Frozen Water On Mars; Even If Ice Doesn’t Indicate Former Life There, It Would Be A Crucial Material For Human Explorers
The Phoenix Mars Lander, a miner for a heart of ice, has found what researchers say they are sure is frozen water on the fourth planet from the sun. Phoenix […]
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Business/Financial
SBIRS Sensor Completes Early On-Orbit Checkout
The Air Force completed an early on-orbit checkout of the second space based infrared systems (SBIRS) sensor. That craft is in a highly elliptical orbit (HEO) over the northern hemisphere. […]
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[June 23, 2008]
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- New DOD Office To Oversee Space And Intel Acquisition
- Orion Launch Abort System Igniter Undergoes Tests
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- SBIRS Sensor Completes Early On-Orbit Checkout
- Phoenix Lander Discovers Frozen Water On Mars; Even If Ice Doesn’t Indicate Former Life There, It Would Be A Crucial Material For Human Explorers
- Iranian Nuclear Program May Mean That Israel Loses Its Trump Card As A Unique Nuclear-Armed Middle Eastern Nation
- Bartlett Hits Multi-Agency Setup For Delaying NPOESS; He Says System Rewards Contractors For Cost Overruns
- Official Says U.S. Space Industry Needs To Use Foreign Suppliers To Enter Foreign Markets; Commerce Department Agency To Be ‘Facilitator’ For U.S. Industry
- Obering Says Interceptors Can Be Deployed In Poland On Time In 2013, If Congress Provides Needed Funds
- House Passes $20.21 Billion NASA Authorization Bill For Fiscal 2009, Including $1 Billion To Reduce U.S. Spaceflight Gap By A Year To Liftoff In 2014
- Senate Panel Approves $17.8 Billion For NASA, Including $200 Million Increase; $3 Billion For Space Shuttle, $2 Billion For Space Station
- Obering Says Lithuanian Interceptors Site Could Be Effective, But Not As Optimal As Planned EMD Interceptors Site In Poland; U.S. Still Focused On Obtaining Deal With Poland For Silos Site
- NPOESS Has More Than $1 Billion Added Cost Overrun; Pentagon Threatens Funds Freeze If Paperwork Undone; Screws On VIIRS Sensor Break, Must Be Replaced
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Business/Financial
Contract
NASA Awards $1.5 Billion Kennedy Space Center Contract NASA gave EG&G Technical Services Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., a contract worth up to $1.5 billion to provide institutional services at Kennedy […]