Space
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SpaceKey Republican Backs U.S.-Polish Missile Interceptor Agreement
By Emelie Rutherford A key Republican missile-defense strategist applauded recently a new U.S.-Poland agreement that paves the way for President Barack Obama’s European missile defense plans. Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio), […]
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Timing Issue Delays SBSS Launch, Official Says
By Ann Roosevelt The Air Force has discovered and produced a fix for a timing issue found on a Minotaur IV launch vehicle that delayed a planned July 8 launch […]
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ATK Completes Installation of World’s Largest Solid Rocket Motor for Ground Test
Engineers and technicians at Alliant Techsystems [ATK] and NASA have completed installation work on the second Ares I First Stage five-segment Development Motor (DM-2), in preparation for its static-fire, which […]
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United Space Alliance To Layoff 15 Percent of Shuttle Workforce
The Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] joint venture United Space Alliance (USA) recently said it will layoff about 15 percent of its current Space Shuttle support workforce to better […]
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NASA Hill Backers Claim Consensus On Bill Hastening Heavy-Lift Rocket
By Emelie Rutherford Key lawmakers and the White House signaled support last week for moving forward with building space technologies based on NASA’s Constellation manned-spaceflight program, which President Barack Obama […]
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Lockheed Martin Selects Marotta to Supply Pneumatic Cooling For JAGM Team
Marotta Controls said Monday that it has been selected by Lockheed Martin [LMT] to join its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) industry team to provide the pneumatic cooling system (PCS) for […]
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Raytheon Awarded $55 Million Contract to Deliver TOW Missiles to Saudi Arabia
Raytheon [RTN] received a $55 million contract to deliver TOW (Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wireless-Guided) 2A Radio Frequency missiles to the U.S. government as part of a foreign military sale to Saudi […]
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Space
STSS Demonstration Satellites Detect, Track Test Launch of an ICBM
The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration program satellites, built by Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN] detected and tracked an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launched on June 16 […]
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Space
Air Force Announces AEHF Launch Delay
By Marina Malenic The launch of the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite from Cape Canaveral, Fla., was delayed by 10 days to perform more confidence testing on a […]
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Satellite Firms Should See Growth As Need For Imagery Mounts, Official Says
By Geoff Fein Even with the concern over dwindling defense budgets and the high cost of putting satellites into orbit, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) sees the […]