Space
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SpaceTwo NASA Lunar Spacecraft Operating Well, Poised For Moon-Mapping And Lunar-Crash Missions; Search For Frozen Water On Course
Lunar Impacts Set For Oct. 9 Two NASA spacecraft are healthy and ramping up their systems, poised for pioneering lunar missions that will net key information for future manned U.S. […]
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Homeland Security
DHS Nixes Program That Would Have Used Satellites For Domestic Spying
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday announced that she had decided to terminate the National Applications Office (NAO) program, which was established by the Bush administration early in 2008 to […]
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SpaceDouble Lunar Craft Launched On Atlas V From Cape Canaveral Air Force Base;
First ASA Mission To Moon In A Decade NASA launched an Atlas V heavy lifter rocket carrying two lunar spacecraft, the first U.S. moon mission in a decade and a […]
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SpaceNASA Shuttle and Rocket Launch Schedule
Updated — June 19, 2009 – 3:55 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 26 Mission: GOES-O Launch […]
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Business/FinancialMissile Defense Proponents Fail To Defeat Obama Budget Cuts In House Panel Measure, But House Floor, Senate, Present Opportunities
President Obama’s plan to slash or eliminate some missile defense programs survived handily in the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), but missile defense proponents are expected to launch a new […]
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Business/FinancialBAE Gains $33 Million Contract For ALE-55 Anti-Missile System Protecting Fighter Aircraft
The Navy gave BAE Systems a $33.6 million low-rate initial production contract for the AN/ALE-55 anti-missile system. AN/ALE55 is part of the Navy Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) system that […]
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Business/FinancialNASA Short Of Funds Needed To Fund Orion-Ares, Other Assigned Missions
Disrupting Constellation Program Spacecraft Development Could Mean More Job Losses, On Top Of Plunging Space Shuttle Employment Underfunding Can Threaten Astronauts’ Lives NASA, the largest space agency on the planet, […]
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Business/FinancialNASA Awards Contracts For Two Small Exploration Spacecraft To Launch By 2015
NASA chose two science proposals — one by Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] and one by Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. — for spacecraft that will be launched by 2015, or […]
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SpaceSpace Shuttle Endeavour Sidelined For Weeks By Persistent Hydrogen Leak In Vent Line From Fuel Tank
Space Shuttle Endeavour has been grounded yet again by the same gremlin that kept it sitting on the launch pad last week: a leaking gaseous hydrogen venting system on the […]
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Business/FinancialIndoStarII-ProtoStarII Satellite Works On Orbit, Ready For Service
The Boeing Co. [BA] finished on-orbit tests and handed over the IndoStar II-ProtoStar II satellite to ProtoStar Ltd., with the bird ready for service. That 601HP satellite will now begin […]