Space
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Business/FinancialRaytheon Working Toward Anti-Jamming GPS Antenna
A Raytheon Co. [RTN] unit received a U.S. Air Force contract for initial production of the GPS Advanced Digital Antenna Production system. The ADAP system protects GPS-based navigation and precise […]
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CongressAdm. Mullen Concerned Iran Is Moving To Nuclear Capability; North Korean Launch Bears Watching
Mullen Declines To Say Whether U.S. Forces Will Shoot Down Any Missile That North Korea Launches Iran’s illicit nuclear materials development program likely has produced enough materials to make an […]
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Business/FinancialNorthrop Delivers Payload Module For AEHF Military Comms Bird
Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] delivered the payload module for the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite, the company announced today. That Friday arrival makes three consecutive early […]
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Business/FinancialIran Is Supplying Surface-To-Air Missiles To Taliban In Afghanistan
Iran is supplying SA-14 Gremlin surface-to-air missiles to Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan, who wish to launch a spectacular attack on U.S. and coalition forces in the nation that spawned the […]
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SpaceAres I Parachute Passes Test
NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket at the Army Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares […]
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Business/FinancialIran Plans Eight Times More Centrifuges: Report
Iran plans to increase its nuclear materials production capacity to more than eight times its current size, Xinhua news agency reported. Iran plans to expand the 6,000 centrifuges to a […]
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Business/FinancialNorth Korea Confirms That Launch Is Imminent: Report
North Korea confirmed that it is poised to launch a missile, though the North said it was about to orbit a satellite, rather than to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, […]
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Business/FinancialOrbital Taurus XL Rocket Fails To Orbit CO2-Sensing Satellite When Fairing Doesn’t Separate
Loss Of Orbiting Carbon Observatory A Blow To Examining Sources, Destinations Of Greenhouse Gas NASA Goddard Deputy Director To Lead Probe Of OCO Glitch An Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] Taurus […]
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SpaceSpace Shuttle Discovery Launch Now Set For March 12; But Review Of Worrisome Valves Still Continues
Experts To Meet Wednesday To Reassess Safety Concerns March 12 Liftoff At 8:54 P.M. ET Would Mean On-Schedule Launches For Hubble, Station Missions The much-delayed Space Shuttle Discovery now may […]
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Business/FinancialReport Says Obama Offered To Kill European Missile Defense System If Russia Helps Curb Iran
Report Appeared In Russian Paper President Obama offered to kill plans to build the European Missile Defense (EMD) system if Russia would help the United States force Iran to abandon […]