Space
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Space50th Space Wing Completes GPS Constellation Expansion
The 50th Space Wing successfully completed a two phase GPS constellation expansion known as “Expandable 24” recently. The move increased GPS coverage and is now providing all GPS users with […]
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Space
Air Force Completes First FAB-T Flight Test
The Air Force recently installed and flight-tested a second-generation Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminal (FAB-T) onboard a test version of an RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft. “This first series […]
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Space
NASA Launches Aquarius to Help Measure Oceans’ Salinity
As a part of a collaborative mission with Argentina’s space agency, Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), NASA last week successfully launched the Delta II Aquarius/SAC-D into space from Vandenberg […]
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Space
Air Force, Industry Pursuing Maritime Version of JASSM Missile
The Air Force requirements shop is working the details for a potential new-start program to field a maritime version of the air service’s venerable Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), with […]
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Space
MDA Director ‘Confident’ GBI Test Failures Being Addressed
A Senate panel sounded alarms recently about test failures with the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, as a senior Pentagon official sought to assure it the national- missile-defense effort is […]
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Space
Lockheed Martin SBIRS GEO-1 Now In Orbit
The first Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft has successfully reached its intended orbit and is performing as required. The satellite was launched May 7 […]
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Space
Combatant Commands Still See JCIDS As Inefficient, Unresponsive
While the Joint Staff has taken great strides toward getting the combatant commands more involved in the requirements process, the mechanism that turns those requests from the field into actual […]
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CongressSTRATCOM: Satellite Jamming Growing Threat
A top Pentagon official testified last Friday he is concerned about the growing threat of adversaries jamming U.S. satellites. Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of U.S. Strategic Command […]
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Space
STRATCOM: Satellite Jamming Growing Threat
A top Pentagon official testified last Friday he is concerned about the growing threat of adversaries jamming U.S. satellites. Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of U.S. Strategic Command […]
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Space
Kratos To Acquire Integral Systems For $236 Million
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. [KTOS] recently said it has agreed to acquire Integral Systems, Inc. [ISYS] for $235.5 million in cash and stock in a deal that significantly […]