Space & Missile Defense Report
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SpaceNASA Robotic Vehicles Zip Around Moon-Like Landscape On Earth
Unmanned vehicles this month zipped around a lunar-style landscape, but it was on Earth, where they had to fight 16 times the force of gravity that they would encounter on […]
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[June 16, 2008]
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- AEHF Satellite Program Progresses
- ATK Launch Systems and Space Systems Merging
- Stand To Permit Testing Orion Space Capsule Emergency Abort Motor
- New Smithsonian Exhibit Shows Life On The Moon
- Army Lofting Small Experimental Satellites
- Contracts
- Launches
- Analyst: Navy Should Consider Hardware To Counter Wider Range Of Enemy Missiles, Including ICBMs
- Campbell Suggests Missile Defense Shield Needs Centralized Planning, Coordination
- Campbell Sees North Korea, Iran Racing For Nuclear-Tipped ICBMs
- A.Q. Kahn Network Held Plans For Compact Nuclear Weapon That Easily Could Fit On Ballistic Missiles, Report Says
- Bush, Brown, Sarkozy Hit Iranian Rejection Of No-Nuclear-Weapons Deal; Brown Says New Sanctions Being Imposed On Intractable Iran; Iran Hungers For Nukes, Bush Says; Sarkozy Terms That ‘Unacceptable’
- ‘Clean’ Shuttle Discovery Lands At Kennedy Space Center; No Shuttle Flights Slated For Almost Four Months
- Rubin Proposes Major Improvement For European Missile Defense; Would Counter Missiles From India Through Northern Africa
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Homeland Security
Rubin Proposes Major Improvement For European Missile Defense; Would Counter Missiles From India Through Northern Africa
A major improvement could be made in the proposed European Missile Defense (EMD) system that the United States wishes to install to protect Europe from Iranian missile attacks, by increasing […]
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Space
‘Clean’ Shuttle Discovery Lands At Kennedy Space Center; No Shuttle Flights Slated For Almost Four Months
NASA Discusses Possible Manned Commercial Flights To Transport Crew To International Space Station Talks Commence On International Participation In U.S. Orion-Ares Missions To Moon, And Japan Also Hopes For Its […]
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Space
Bush, Brown, Sarkozy Hit Iranian Rejection Of No-Nuclear-Weapons Deal; Brown Says New Sanctions Being Imposed On Intractable Iran; Iran Hungers For Nukes, Bush Says; Sarkozy Terms That ‘Unacceptable’
President Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy unanimously condemned Iran for contemptuously rejecting incentives for it to surrender nuclear-weapons ambitions, saying that a nuclear-armed Iran […]
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Space
A.Q. Kahn Network Held Plans For Compact Nuclear Weapon That Easily Could Fit On Ballistic Missiles, Report Says
Authorities Don’t Know Whether Iran, North Korea Given Plans The A.Q. Kahn smuggling ring also held plans showing how to make compact nuclear weapons, precisely what rogue states such as […]
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Space
Campbell Sees North Korea, Iran Racing For Nuclear-Tipped ICBMs
A clear trend is emerging that rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea are in “a sprint, not a marathon,” racing to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could […]
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Homeland Security
Campbell Suggests Missile Defense Shield Needs Centralized Planning, Coordination
But Combatant Commanders Would Retain Power To Execute Missile Kills In Their Regions Allied Nations Also Should Be Linked To BMD The multi-layered global ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield should […]
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Homeland SecuritySuccessful Aegis System Test Opens Door To New Capability; Will Aegis Compete With Ground-Based Midcourse System?
A successful test last week of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system and its Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IV interceptor opens the door to new capabilities and missions for the […]
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Business/FinancialSen. Levin Cites NPOESS As Example Of Problem Program, Over Budget And Behind Schedule; Young Says All Original Capabilities Ultimately May Not Be Orbited
Senate Panel Blasts $295 Billion Of Cost Overruns In Pentagon Programs; That Equals More Than 16 Times NASA Budget, About 30 Times More Than MDA Budget The National Polar-orbiting Operational […]