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CongressNorth Korea Test-Fires ICBM Engine; Russia Launches Missile Said To Defeat U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Shield
Report Says Missile Threat Worsens, Outlines Need For American BMD System Russia successfully launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that Moscow claims can defeat U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]
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Business/FinancialEuropeans Charting Course To Be Independent Of United States In Both Civil, Military Space
The Europeans wish to be independent of the United States in space, including a capacity to make their own satellites and launchers. As the United States falls on hard times, […]
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SpaceEndeavour Arrives At Launch Pad 39B To Act As Life Raft For Atlantis During Hubble Space Telescope Repair Mission
Barring Problems, Atlantis Lifts Off Oct. 10, Endeavour Slated For Nov. 12 Blast-Off After Atlantis, Endeavour Go Aloft, Only Nine Shuttle Missions To Launch Before Shuttle Fleet Retires In 2010 […]
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Business/Financial
Japan Uses PAC-3 To Kill Target Missile In Test; But U.S. THAAD Test Is Blocked By Weak Target
Japan succeeded in using a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) interceptor to take out a target tactical ballistic missile, but a U.S. test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or […]
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Business/Financial
Senate Approves Amendment Providing $89 Million For Ballistic Missile Defense AN/TPY-2 Radar
Provision Doesn’t Specify Which Nation Is Site The Senate voted out a defense authorization bill for the soon-to-begin fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, approving an amendment that would provide […]
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Homeland Security
General Cool To Expanding Missile Defense System To Protect Space Assets From Attack
The United States shouldn’t leap to expand its missile defense system to protect U.S. military and civilian space assets from enemy attack, Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the Air […]
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Business/Financial
Launches
Chinese Rocket Rolled Out To Launch Pad, As Taikonauts Arrive For Manned Mission Chinese space workers finished rolling out the Long-March II-F rocket topped by a spaceship, moving the system […]
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Air ForceLightly Amended Senate Defense Authorization Bill Heads To Conference
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate’s Wednesday night passage of a sparsely amended defense authorization bill kicked into high gear House-Senate negotiations over differences between each chamber’s version of the legislation […]
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InternationalEgypt Wants UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters, TOWs and 120mm HE-T
Egypt wants to buy more than $560 million in United Technologies [UTX] General Electric [GE] UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, Raytheon’s [RTN] TOW 2A anti-armor guided missiles and General Dynamics [GD] […]
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Lockheed Martin, Raytheon-Boeing Team Each Receive JAGM Awards
By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT] and a Raytheon [RTN]-Boeing [BA] team yesterday both signed 27-month firm, fixed-price contracts with a ceiling of no more than $125 million for the […]