Space
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Congress
Key Lawmaker: NASA Budget Too Low, But Major Increases May Have To Wait Until New President Is In Office Next Year
Bipartisan Support In Congress For Bigger NASA Budget, But Bush May Again Thwart That Move This Year So A Possibility Is Using Continuing Budget Resolution Through Next January, Then Sending […]
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Congress
House Panel Begins Mulling Whether Missile Defense Is Worthwhile
Witnesses Agree Rogue Nations Gain Nuclear/Missile Capabilities, But Differ On Whether Threat Of Strike On U.S. Justifies BMD Program While U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs have scored multiple successes […]
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Congress
TSAT May Not Launch Until After 2018, Senate Panel Hears
House Panel: Concern That Budget Plans May Short TSAT By $4 Billion, Delaying It By At Least Two Years The Transformational Satellite (TSAT) communications program is slipping into the future, […]
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Space
Threats To Military, Civilian Satellites Seen Rising, Prompting Soaring Need For Space Situational Awareness
Space Acquisition Programs At Risk For Cost Increases, Schedule Delays: GAO Space is becoming a steadily more dangerous place for satellites and spacecraft, not only because of the threat of […]
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International
Yet Another Report Verifies Gigantic Chinese Military Buildup, Threat
Another new report has confirmed the gigantic military buildup in China and the threat that it poses, drawing concern from members of Congress. Following reports from the Defense Intelligence Agency […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Gives Lockheed $47.5 Million Contract For Space Shuttle Fuel Tanks
NASA gave Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $47.5 million contract change for external fuel tanks to be mated to space shuttle orbiter vehicles in future missions. Lockheed Martin will make the […]
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Space
Little Time, Lots of Effort Led To Successful Satellite Shoot-Down
By Geoff Fein Last month’s missile shot at a wayward spy satellite not only demonstrated the capability of the technologies to conduct such an effort, but it also showed the […]
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Space
Griffin Sees Several Thousand Space Jobs Lost In Florida, Louisiana
Gap Between Space Shuttle Fleet Retirement And Orion-Ares Spaceship Costly As Skills Are Lost, And U.S. Becomes Dependent On Russia For Space Transit Florida Senator Asks About Commercial Spaceship Launches […]
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Space
Griffin, Senior Senator Debate Getting Huge Experiment Into Space
The head of NASA and the senator chairing the NASA oversight panel debated at length how to get an otherwise wasted $1.5 billion experiment up to the International Space Station, […]
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International
New Reports Show Iranian, North Korean, Chinese Missile Threats Worsen As U.S. Moves To Advance Multi-Layered Ballistic Missile Defense
And Then There Is A Reawakening Russia New reports confirm that multiple missile threats facing the United States are worsening, threats that years ago prompted Washington to institute a $100 […]