International
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Homeland Security
The Bad Bear Is Back: Russia Fires ICBM From Sub To Target Area In Pacific Ocean, And Fires A Land-Based ICBM, As Medvedev Watches
Sub Missile Flies 7,200 Miles In Test, After Russian Threats To Nuke European Missile Defense System If U.S. Dares To Build It Missile Launches Add To Tensions From Renewed Russian […]
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Homeland Security
U.S. Preeminence In Space Slips Away. As China, India, Russia Accelerate Their Space Programs: House Panel
Report Urges Revamping Defense, Intelligence Space Acquisition, Assails Sole-Source Contracts Better Relations Needed Between Military-Intelligence Agencies And Commercial Satellite Data Firms "The United States is losing its preeminence in space," […]
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Homeland Security
China Leaders See Space Program As An Investment, Not As A Gigantic Expense As U.S. Lawmakers Do
With Space Program, China Sees Military, Economic, Political Gains; China Makes Careful But Large Moves China sees its space program as an investment, not as an unwelcome budgetary outlay, a […]
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Homeland Security
North Korea Fires Missiles Into Yellow Sea: Reports
Pyongyang Developing Small Nuclear Weapon To Fit Atop Its Missiles North Korea fired missiles into the Yellow Sea, as the isolated regime separately is developing smaller-sized nuclear weapons as warheads […]
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CongressMcCain, Obama Decry Iranian Move To Obtain Nuclear Weapons As Threat To Existence Of Israel
Both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates condemned Iranian moves to produce nuclear weapons, saying that would pose a grave threat to the existence of Israel. Sen. Barack Obama […]
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Congress
Neither McCain Nor Obama Is Seen Pressing For Space Weapons
Neither of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates is expected to press for aggressive U.S. policies in space or the procurement of anti-satellite weapons, a new report suggests. Thus no major […]
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InternationalESA Spacecraft, Searching For Life On Other Planets, Zeros In On One Likely To Have Life Forms: Earth
The Venus Express spacecraft that will search for life on other planets is kicking off its work by focusing on one planet that likely can support life: Earth. The European […]
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International
Soyuz Spacecraft Launches From Baikonur To Take Expedition 13 Crew To Space Station
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday to take a new crew to the International Space Station for a half-year stay in orbit. That crew includes Expedition 18 […]
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Business/FinancialContracts
Space Systems/Loral Gains Contract To Provide Satellite For SES SES, the European satellite operator, will buy another Loral satellite. Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL] […]
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Business/Financial
Navy Needs Ships It Can Evolve To Meet Growing Ballistic, Cruise Missile Threats, Official Says
Vice Admiral Says Missile Threat Justifies Shift From Building New-Design Destroyers Back To Older Arleigh Burke Design By Geoff Fein The Navy has to move toward an open systems environment […]