Space
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SpaceNASA Chooses Orbital Sciences For $170 Million Seed Money To Develop Space Transit Service
Orbital, With Solid Cashflow, To Finance Major Portion of Spacecraft Development Cost Commercial Craft Would Help Fill Void Left By Space Shuttle Retirement In 2010 NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp. […]
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SpaceNavy Uses Aegis/SM-3 To Take Down Dead Intel Satellite
Tank With Toxic Hydrazine Fuel Likely Destroyed Skeptics Question Whether Shootdown Was Necessary Bullseye. The Navy obliterated a nonfunctional intelligence satellite using the Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] Aegis weapon control […]
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SpaceSpace Shuttle Atlantis Lands; Little Damage Seen On Clean Orbiter
Ambitious Shuttle Missions Schedule Now Set For 2008 Space Shuttle Atlantis glided down to a perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center, where little damage was spotted on the orbiter vehicle […]
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SpaceOrion-Ares Thrust Oscillation Problem Being Resolved
Going Directly To Mars, Without Moon Base, Would Be a Strategic Mistake, NASA Official Says Engineers are moving toward a solution for the thrust oscillation problems that threaten to cause […]
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Business/FinancialNASA Chooses Orbital Sciences For $170 Million To Develop Space Transit Service
By Dave Ahearn NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., to receive up to $170 million in federal seed money to spur Orbital and its team of companies to […]
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Business/FinancialNASA Gives ATK $812.5 Million Contract For Reusable Solid Rocket Motors
NASA gave ATK Launch Systems [ATK] an $812.5 million contract change to continue delivering reusable solid rocket motors for the space shuttle, NASA said Friday. That means the Brigham City, […]
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InternationalNATO Moves Closer To Theater Ballistic Missile Defense Capability
By Ann Roosevelt NATO inaugurated a special testing facility in The Hague, Netherlands — a milestone in the multi-year alliance project to protect deployed operating forces from ballistic missile attack. […]
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Homeland Security
Backlogged Security Clearances Plague DOD, Contractors, But OPM Sees Progress; 80 Percent of Reviews Done In 67 Days, But Averages May Mask Wide
Another 20 Percent Of Reviews May Take Longer; 540 Days Taken On One Case Sluggish Reviews Harm National Security, Cause Short Staffing; Employers Raid Each Other’s Shops For Workers With […]