Space
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Business/FinancialNational Space Symposium: Raytheon Offers Responder: New Sensors For Rapid Use On Satellites
Raytheon Co. [RTN] unveiled its Responder product, a rapidly deployable interchangeable, mission-specific sensor payload for satellites. The move comes as many military officers and analysts worry that some potential enemies […]
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Business/Financial
Boeing Bloodied As Gates Proposes Slashing Missile Defense Programs In Budget Proposal
Boeing ABL: No More Planes; Boeing GMD: No More Interceptors; Boeing EMD: Coasting On Old Funds Gates Plan Cuts 14 Percent Of MDA Funds; Aegis-Standard Missile Program Does Well, As […]
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Homeland Security
Iran Seen Plotting To Damage Iraq: Pentagon Report
Iran threatens Iraq, and won’t cease attempts to back terrorist groups that kill American military personnel, a Pentagon report disclosed. "Iran continues to pose a significant challenge to Iraq’s long-term […]
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Business/Financial
Special Issue: North Korea Launches ICBM;
Japan, U.S. Forces, Don’t Try To Shoot It Down; Instead, Obama, Others, Frown On Outlaw Launch Illicit North Korean Missile Launch Proves Need For U.S., Japanese Missile Defense; Missile Flight […]
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SpaceNASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
Updated — April 2, 2009 – 11 a.m. EDT Legend:+ Targeted For | * No Earlier Than (Tentative) |** To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: April 28 * Mission: GOES-O […]
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Business/Financial
Transformational Satellite Program Would Die In Fiscal 2010 Gates Plan; $26 Billion At Stake For TSAT
The $26 billion Transformational Satellite, or TSAT, program would die under a new budget plan that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates today unveiled in a news briefing. The Boeing Co. […]
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Business/Financial
AIA Pushes For Easing Export Controls On Satellites; Group Alleges Rules Are Damaging Space Industrial Base
The Aerospace Industries Association once again criticized export controls on sensitive technologies that might have military applications, saying those controls harm the space industrial base. AIA President and CEO Marion […]
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Business/Financial
Tauscher, Skelton, Condemn North Korea For Missile Launch, But They Still Appear Poised To Slash Missile Defense Programs
Their Comments Come As Obama, Gates, Seen Likely To Slash Or Kill Some Missile Defense Programs In Fiscal 2010 Budget Plan Republicans Strongly Oppose Any Move To Gouge Missile Defense […]
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CongressNASA Inspector General Cobb Resigns; Rockefeller, Gordon, Miller All Welcome His Long-Sought Departure
Robert W. Cobb, the long-embattled NASA inspector general, resigned under pressure from several Senate and House lawmakers who earlier had slammed his performance in office and requested that he be […]
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Business/Financial
Congressional Reaction To Gates Budget Plan Ranges From Noncommittal To Incredulous, With Missile Defense Cuts Drawing Opposition
Congressional reaction to the new budget plan by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ranged from polite but reserved, to strident condemnation, especially in his plans to cut some missile defense […]