Space
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Business/FinancialContract
NASA Awards $1.5 Billion Kennedy Space Center Contract NASA gave EG&G Technical Services Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., a contract worth up to $1.5 billion to provide institutional services at Kennedy […]
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Business/Financial
Orion Launch Abort System Igniter Undergoes Tests
NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] test-fired a critical safety component for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, the future American spacecraft. Technicians fired a yard-long igniter for the abort motor […]
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Business/Financial
New DOD Office To Oversee Space And Intel Acquisition
By Emelie Rutherford A new organization within the Pentagon acquisition chief’s office responsible for all acquisition oversight of Defense Department space and intelligence programs has been officially established with Joshua […]
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Homeland Security
MDA Plans Small Business Conference In Huntsville Next Month
The Missile Defense Agency will host a small business conference at Huntsville, Ala., next month. That event will be held July 21-22 at the Von Braun Center North Hall. Theme […]
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Air ForceNew AT&L Shop For Space And Intel Acquisition Oversight Established
By Emelie Rutherford A new organization within the Pentagon acquisition chief’s office responsible for all acquisition oversight of Defense Department space and intelligence programs has been officially established with Joshua […]
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Homeland Security
Rubin Proposes Major Improvement For European Missile Defense; Would Counter Missiles From India Through Northern Africa
A major improvement could be made in the proposed European Missile Defense (EMD) system that the United States wishes to install to protect Europe from Iranian missile attacks, by increasing […]
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Space‘Clean’ Shuttle Discovery Lands At Kennedy Space Center; No Shuttle Flights Slated For Almost Four Months
NASA Discusses Possible Manned Commercial Flights To Transport Crew To International Space Station Talks Commence On International Participation In U.S. Orion-Ares Missions To Moon, And Japan Also Hopes For Its […]
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Space
Bush, Brown, Sarkozy Hit Iranian Rejection Of No-Nuclear-Weapons Deal; Brown Says New Sanctions Being Imposed On Intractable Iran; Iran Hungers For Nukes, Bush Says; Sarkozy Terms That ‘Unacceptable’
President Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy unanimously condemned Iran for contemptuously rejecting incentives for it to surrender nuclear-weapons ambitions, saying that a nuclear-armed Iran […]
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Space
A.Q. Kahn Network Held Plans For Compact Nuclear Weapon That Easily Could Fit On Ballistic Missiles, Report Says
Authorities Don’t Know Whether Iran, North Korea Given Plans The A.Q. Kahn smuggling ring also held plans showing how to make compact nuclear weapons, precisely what rogue states such as […]
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Space
Campbell Sees North Korea, Iran Racing For Nuclear-Tipped ICBMs
A clear trend is emerging that rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea are in “a sprint, not a marathon,” racing to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could […]