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SpaceAir Force Delays SBIRS GEO-1 Delivery, Still Hopes For FY ’11 Launch
Air Force and Lockheed Martin [LMT] engineers last month completed system testing on the first Space-based Infrared System (SBIRS) missile-warning satellite, now planned for delivery to Cape Canaveral, Fla., in […]
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Air Force On Track For JASSM IOC In January
By Marina Malenic EGLIN AFB, Fla.–A stealthy cruise missile developed by the Air Force and Lockheed Martin [LMT] will officially be ready for deployment early next year, the service’s manager […]
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ILS Proton Successfully Launches BADR-5 for Arabsat
International Launch Services (ILS), a leading launch services provider for the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the BADR-5 satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit June 4 on an ILS Proton […]
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Lawmakers Call On DoD To Aid Rocket Industry In Wake of NASA Changes
By Emelie Rutherford As the Obama administration moves to dismantle NASA’s Constellation program, lawmakers are prodding the Pentagon to craft plans for aiding the industrial base for solid and liquid […]
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Boeing Network And Space Unit Plans Select Acquisitions
By Ann Roosevelt Look for Boeing‘s [BA] Network and Space systems, a business area within Boeing Defense Space and Security, to continue making certain select acquisitions in future, according to […]
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Aerojet Validates Engine Design for NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle
Aerojet, a GenCorp [GY] company, last week successfully completed a second set of hot-fire test sequences of its R-1E 25-pound thrust, bipropellant engine, validating the engine design for NASA’s Orion […]
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Arianespace to Launch Skynet 5D Military Communications Satellite
EADS Astrium has selected Arianespace to launch the fourth satellite in the Skynet 5 constellation. Jean-Yves Le Gall, Arianespace chairman and CEO, on 20 May announced the launch contract signing […]
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GOP Irked By Russian Stance On START Treaty Limiting Missile Defense
By Emelie Rutherford Senior administration officials tried to convince skeptical Republican senators yesterday that U.S. missile-defense plans would not be impeded by the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) […]
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Pranalytica Announces Aircraft Missile Defense Laser Breakthrough
Pranalytica, Inc. May 18 announced the introduction of the two-watt, fully packaged, continuous wave, room temperature quantum cascade laser (QCL) system, Model 1101-40, emitting at a wavelength of 4.0 microns, […]
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House Authorizers Propose Missile-Defense Spending Boost
By Emelie Rutherford A House panel approved Pentagon budget legislation May 12 that calls for boosting the White House’s request for missile-defense programs by hundreds of millions of dollars. The […]