Business/Financial
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Business/FinancialLockheed Martin Gets $35.8 Million Navy Contract For Submarine Comms Capabilities
The Navy recently awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $35.8 million contract to design and produce antenna buoy systems that will significantly expand the communications capabilities of submarines while they are […]
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Business/FinancialU.S. Forces Repositioned To Counter Growing Chinese Military Might, Gates Says
American Moves Underway To Take On Growing Chinese Cyber Threat U.S. forces are being repositioned to counter burgeoning Chinese military power, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told the Senate Armed […]
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Business/FinancialSBIRS Satellite Software Test Succeeds
The first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite, completed a test using new flight software permitting highly reliable spacecraft command and control operations, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. […]
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Business/FinancialNASA Issues Request For Proposals, Seeking Ideas For Altair Moon Lander
NASA issued a request for proposals for the Altair lunar lander that will transport astronauts from the next-generation Orion space capsule (crew exploration vehicle) orbiting the moon down to the […]
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Business/FinancialBuilding At Kennedy Ready For Work On Orion
After a two-year, top to bottom renovation, the High Bay Facility of the Operations & Checkout (O&C) Building at Kennedy Space Center is ready to begin preparations to build the […]
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Business/FinancialNASA To Launch Carbon-Sleuthing Satellite At 1:51 A.M. PT Feb. 23
NASA will launch a satellite that will measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and track down its source, with liftoff on a Taurus XL rocket set for 1:51 a.m. PT […]
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Business/FinancialPrototype Ground Control System Controls GPS Test Satellite: Northrop
A ground control system has shown it can control a Global Positioning System (GPS) asset, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced today. The unit demonstrated command and control of a GPS […]
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Business/FinancialRussia Again Offering A Deal To Obama: Kill U.S.-European Missile Defense Plan, And Russia Won’t Deploy Iskander Missiles
Russians Think Obama Could Kill Planned European Missile Defense Without Seeming To Cave To Moscow Russia, testing the newly-inaugurated U.S. President Obama, has anew offered a deal: if the United […]
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Business/FinancialChilling Thought: Will Iran Ensure Strong Control Of Nuke Missiles? Or Could Rogue Officer Launch One?
Iran likely will establish some sort of controls on firing the nuclear-tipped missiles it seems bent upon developing, but a worrisome factor is that Iran has been decentralizing once-rigid control […]
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Business/FinancialNo End Seen To Hamas Missile Attacks On Israel, Though Obama Picking Mitchell Seen As Good Move; Hamas Rearming
No end is seen to Hamas continuing rocket and missile attacks on Israel, even though Israeli forces bombed some of the tunnels from Egypt to the Gaza Strip through which […]