Business/Financial
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Business/FinancialAir Force To Reopen TSAT Competition With No Plans To Scale Back Effort
By Marina Malenic The Air Force is poised to open a new round of bidding for a $10 billion Transformational Communications Satellite (TSAT) contract, which the service plans to award […]
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Business/FinancialBush Hailed For Developing Missile Defense System
The Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) gave outgoing President Bush a commendation for developing and deploying a multi-layered missile defense system in a world with increasing ballistic threats. MDAA President […]
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Business/FinancialESA Will See Several Major Launches This Year, ESA Director General Says
The European Space Agency will see several major spacecraft launches this year, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said. Among major spacecraft being orbited are Herschel-Planck, GOCE, SMOS and CryoSat-2, he […]
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Business/FinancialSES Astra Satellite Dies
SES Astra announced that its Astra 5 satellite failed. The bird, which operated at at 31.5 degrees East, experienced a technical anomaly leading to the end of the spacecraft’s mission, […]
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Business/FinancialNASA Global Hawk Poised For Enviro Science Research
A Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle is poised to begin performing environmental science research for NASA, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and Northrop Grumman are […]
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Business/FinancialObama Pledges To Continue War Against Terrorists, But Offers Comity If They Stop Killing Innocents
New Obama White House Website Offers Only Limited Support For Ballistic Missile Defense Programs Barack Hussein Obama pledged to continue waging war on terrorists, vowing to stymie their massacre of […]
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Air ForceIf Defense And NASA Received Traditional Share Of Federal Funding, Economic Stimulus Bill Could Mean $152 Billion For DOD, $8 Billion For NASA
As a new president and Congress are poised to enact a roughly $800 billion economic stimulus bill, it is clear that the measure could provide immense help to critically tight […]
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Business/FinancialGriffin Leaves With Message Unchanged: Aim High In Space Program Strategy
U.S. Aerospace Endeavor Still Leads By Coasting On Past Investments, But Other Nations Now ‘Closing In’ NASA Administrator Mike Griffin is leaving his post with an unvarying message, that the […]
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Business/FinancialAegis Program Director Sees Immediate Need For 7 Or 8 More Ships; More After That
The Navy needs some seven or eight more ballistic-missile-defense (BMD) Aegis weapon system surface ships immediately to meet demands of combatant commanders, and the sea service definitely will need more […]
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Business/FinancialBAE, Lockheed Martin Explore Other Opportunities For AGS, LRLAP
By Geoff Fein While the Navy and Marine Corps continue to study ways to deliver surface fire support, Lockheed Martin [LMT] and BAE Systems are working on an effort to […]