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Business/FinancialGriffin Tells Lockheed Chief To Stop Trying To Kill Future Ares I Rocket In Order To Gain More ULA Rocket Orders
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin bluntly told Robert J. Stevens, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], to stop trying to kill the future Ares I rocket, according to […]
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NASA Gives $3.5 Billion-To-$6.2 Billion Space Flight Contracts To Orbital, SpaceX
Space Agency Moves To Foster Private Commercial Logistics Spacecraft NASA, in a double departure from business as usual, has taken a giant step toward privatizing the transport of cargo to […]
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Boeing Gains $397.9 Million Contract To Continue Ground-based Midcourse Defense Program For Only Six Months
Long-Term Contract To Be Decided In Impending Obama Administration The Missile Defense Agency gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a cost-plus-award-fee contract worth up to $397.9 million to continue the Ground-base […]
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GAO Denies Raytheon Protest Of Sole-Source Aegis Mod Contract To Lockheed Martin
Systems Upgrading Work Will Proceed On Navy Destroyers , Cruisers The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied Raytheon Co. [RTN] protests against several sole-source, non-competitive contracts that the Navy earmarked for […]
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If Israel Had Full Missile Defense System, It Wouldn’t Have To Enter Gaza Strip
The value of missile defense systems has been proven by the unending torrent of missiles that Hamas has launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip, a U.S. missile defense expert […]
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Arianespace Plans For Three Satellite Launches
Lockheed Decides To Use Ariane 5 Rocket To Launch Satellite For Japanese Operators In Liftoff From South American Spaceport Arianespace announced it will provide lift capability to orbit several satellites […]
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Ariane 5 Launches Two Satellites
An Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket lifted off from the spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, South America, to launch two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits. Those satellites were accurately […]
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Russia Launches Three Glonass-M Satellites On Proton Rocket
Russia launched three Glonass-M navigational satellites on a Proton robotic rocket that soared on Christmas from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Itar-Tass reported. That brings the total number of Glonass […]
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NLOS System Precision Attack Missile Completes Third Test
A Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System’s Precision Attack Missile completed the third guided test flight for the weapon class. NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Co. [RTN] and Lockheed Martin Corp. […]
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Raytheon Gains Up To $3.3 Billion Patriot Order For UAE
The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a not-to-exceed $3.3 billion order for advanced Patriot air and missile defense capability, whole life support and training for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). […]