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SpaceNASA Chooses Orbital Sciences For $170 Million Seed Money To Develop Space Transit Service
Orbital, With Solid Cashflow, To Finance Major Portion of Spacecraft Development Cost Commercial Craft Would Help Fill Void Left By Space Shuttle Retirement In 2010 NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp. […]
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Homeland Security
DHS Selects Three Firms For HSPD-12 Implementation
By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements to Bearing Point [BE], EDS Corp. [EDS] and XTec Inc. to compete for task orders […]
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Space
Navy Uses Aegis/SM-3 To Take Down Dead Intel Satellite
Tank With Toxic Hydrazine Fuel Likely Destroyed Skeptics Question Whether Shootdown Was Necessary Bullseye. The Navy obliterated a nonfunctional intelligence satellite using the Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] Aegis weapon control […]
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Navy/USMCNavy To Begin Fire Scout OPEVAL On Ship Other Than LCS
By Geoff Fein The Navy will restructure Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) program to allow the drone to conduct shipboard […]
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Space
Space Shuttle Atlantis Lands; Little Damage Seen On Clean Orbiter
Ambitious Shuttle Missions Schedule Now Set For 2008 Space Shuttle Atlantis glided down to a perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center, where little damage was spotted on the orbiter vehicle […]
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InternationalBoeing Delivers First of Four Tanker Aircraft To Japan
Boeing [BA] yesterday delivered the first of four KC-767 aerial refueling tankers to Japan. "The KC-767 will have an immediate impact and significantly increase Japan’s capabilities," said Jim Albaugh, president […]
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Space
Orion-Ares Thrust Oscillation Problem Being Resolved
Going Directly To Mars, Without Moon Base, Would Be a Strategic Mistake, NASA Official Says Engineers are moving toward a solution for the thrust oscillation problems that threaten to cause […]
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Homeland Security
NAS Urges Phase-Out of Cesium Sources Due To Dirty Bomb Risks
By George Lobsenz A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel has urged the U.S. government to develop policies to phase out radioactive cesium chloride sources now widely used for medical […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Grumman, Oshkosh Add Plasan To JLTV Effort
By Ann Roosevelt Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] Feb. 20 announced they have selected Israel’s Plasan, a leading developer and manufacturer of add-on armor systems for the military […]