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Business/FinancialBoeing Space Competing For $14 Billion Of Contracts; Backlog Of Existing Work $6 Billion To $7 Billion; Boeing Consulting Lawmakers On GOES-R Funding
The Boeing Co. [BA] currently is competing for about $14 billion worth of additional satellite/space-related business, an area that already generates $3.2 billion of annual revenues, according to Craig Cooning, […]
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InternationalCosmonauts Complete Spacewalk To Trouble-Shoot Soyuz Spacecraft, Removing Suspect Pyro Bolt
Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, the International Space Station commander, and Oleg Kononenko, flight engineer, ventured outside the space station to remove an explosive bolt from their docked Soyuz space vehicle. The […]
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International
Could Adding Rockets Make International Space Station An Interplanetary Spaceship For Voyage To Mars?
Adding a propulsion system and navigation gear to the International Space Station (ISS) could turn the $156 billion orbiting laboratory complex into an interplanetary spaceship, a writer on space issues […]
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International
NASA, European Space Agency, Mull Cooperation On Programs, Technologies, For Missions To The Moon
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are joining to work on cooperative programs and technologies for a human encampment on the moon. That would involve, on the part of […]
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Business/Financial
Launches
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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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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CongressObama, McCain Nearly Tied In Modest Campaign Donations From Defense Industry
By Emelie Rutherford White House rivals Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) continue to garner similar campaign donation totals from defense contractors, though neither appear to have strong […]
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Congress
Iran 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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Pentagon Creates New Cluster Munitions Standards
By Marina Malenic The Department Defense last week released a cluster munitions policy requiring that more than 99 percent of the submunitions that make up a cluster bomb detonate on […]