Space
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Business/Financial
FAA Report Sees Boom In Tiny Commercial Space Ventures: Huge Opportunities Seen For Private Firms Developing Vehicles To Haul Astronauts, Cargo, Food And Much More
Are Private Space Transport Firms Today Where Microsoft Was When It Sold Stock In 1985? Broader, Established Space Transport Industry Sees Revenues, Profits Soar More Than 40 Percent Over Two […]
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Air Force
Allied Nations Interested In Buying THAAD Ballistic Missile Defense Systems
Space Based Radar Needed Because Ground Radars Blind In Some Spots Europeans Would Welcome Mobile Kinetic Energy Interceptor Missile Defense Some nations are interested in buying the Terminal High Altitude […]
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Space
Obering Sees Aegis, THAAD Interceptor Production Rate ‘Roughly’ Doubling In 2010-2015, But Funding Wouldn’t Double
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will seek approval to roughly double the production rate of new Aegis and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile interceptors in fiscal years […]
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Space
Lockheed Martin Delivers Key SBIRS Software
The Lockheed Martin [LMT] team developing the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) has successfully delivered two key blocks of ground software integral to supporting the program’s geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and highly […]
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Space
Space Foundation Report Released At Space Symposium
Worldwide Space Industry Output Increased To $251 Billion Last Year; Industry Soars A Sizzling 11 Percent, Double World Economic Growth Rate Government Spending On Satellites, Missile Defense And More Is […]
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Space
Russian Soyuz Launches To Open New Space Station Chapter
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft heralded a new space saga when it launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to take the new Expedition 17 crew to the International Space Station, to […]
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Space
Experts See Construction Of New Nuke Power Plants Spurring Potential Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
A looming renaissance in construction of nuclear power plants may increase dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation, according to experts. Their comments came hours after Iran announced it will triple its […]
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Space
Bush Signs Colombian Free Trade Deal; AIA Urges Swift Congressional Approval
The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) pushed Congress to give swift backing to a Colombian Free Trade Agreement that President Bush just sent to Capitol Hill. AIA also hopes Bush will […]
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Space
NASA Sets Mission To Assess Moon Dust, Atmosphere
The U.S. space agency will send a spacecraft to the moon to examine the lunar atmosphere and any moon dust it contains. That Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) […]