Space
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SpaceNASA’s LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water in Lunar Crater
Preliminary data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The LCROSS spacecraft and a companion […]
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Space
ATK Awarded $100 Million Contract for Trident II Solid Rocket Propulsion
Alliant Techsystems [ATK] has received a $100 million contract from Lockheed Martin [LMT] to produce solid rocket propulsion systems for all three stages of the Navy’s Trident II (D-5) Fleet […]
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Space
SES WORLD SKIES’ NSS-12 Satellite Successfully Launched on-board Ariane 5
SES WORLD SKIES on Oct. 29 announced that the NSS-12 satellite successfully roared into space on-board an Ariane 5 ECA booster from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Approximately […]
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Space
Eye of James Webb Space Telescope Marks Major Milestone
The telescope element of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by Northrop Grumman [NOC], has successfully passed a critical design review verifying it will perform as designed, and now […]
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Space
Successful First Flight for Lockheed Martin’s New HELLFIRE II Missile Design
Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] new multi-functional AGM-114R HELLFIRE II missile scored a direct hit during its first proof-of-principle (POP) flight test recently at Eglin Air Force Base, FL. “The multi-functional HELLFIRE […]
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Space
Raytheon Awarded More Than $100 Million For New Missile Defense System
Raytheon [RTN] was recently awarded two contracts worth in excess of $100 million by Israel’s Rafael to design and develop the David’s Sling Weapon System. The DSWS is a joint […]
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Space
STRATCOM Chief: Space Budget Should Bolster Proven Capabilities
By Marina Malenic The United States should put more of its military space budget toward creating greater redundancy in its proven space systems, rather than counting on next-generation capabilities that […]
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Space
JSOW ER Meets All Test Objectives In First Flight Demonstration
By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] and the Navy successfully flight tested the extended range variant of the Joint Stand Off Weapon (JSOW ER) earlier this month off the California coast, […]
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Space
LM-Built GPS Satellite Achieves 10 Years Of On-Orbit Operations
The third Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-3) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [LMT] to provide significantly improved navigation capabilities for military and civilian users worldwide, has […]
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Space
ITT Picked to Build Advanced Imaging Systems for Japanese Satellites
ITT [ITT] announced Nov. 2 that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan’s largest satellite manufacturer, has selected ITT Space Systems to build the imaging systems for two geostationary satellites being built for […]