Space
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International
Japanese Aegis Destroyer Wins Test By Killing Target Missile With SM-3 Interceptor
First Time An Ally Has Used Aegis/SM-3 In Ballistic Missile Defense Test The Japanese destroyer Kongo today employed its Aegis weapon control system to guide a Standard Missile-3 to destroy […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Gives Boeing $799.5 Million Contract For Ares I Rocket Avionics
Boeing [BA] beat out Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. [BLL] to win a $799.5 million avionics instrument unit for the Ares I upper stage rocket that someday will lift the […]
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Space
Space Shuttle
By Dave Ahearn Putting astronaut crew safety first, NASA has mandated a weeks-long troubleshooting delay for a scheduled space shuttle flight. A maddening intermittent malfunction in an external fuel tank […]
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Congress
Defense Authorizers Call For Development of Space Protection Strategy
By Michael Sirak House and Senate defense overseers have called on the Secretary of Defense, in conjunction with the director of national intelligence (DNI), to craft a strategy to protect […]
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Space
Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Delayed To Jan. 2 Or Later; Frustrating Intermittent Sensor-Data Woe Again Blocks Liftoff
Experts Suspect Wiring Or Connectors At Fault; Panel To Make Recommendations Tomorrow NASA Loses Bid For Four Shuttle Launches In 2007, But Gerstenmaier Says Space Station Will Be Completed Putting […]
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International
Russia Claims Its New ICBM Thwarts U.S. Missile Defense Shield
U.S.-Russian Talks Set To Begin On European Missile Defense System Russia Saturday test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that it claims can defeat the U.S. ballistic missile defense shield. Whether […]
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International
Newt Gingrich Says Report Iran Stopped Nukes Program ‘Political’
Generals Say Iran Still May Be Fomenting Attacks On U.S. Forces In Iraq A prominent former leader in Congress took issue with both the timing and content of a report, […]
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International
Launches
Ariane 5 Set To Launch Two Missiles, Arianespace Announces An Ariane 5 GS lifter this month is set to launch two satellites into orbit from the European spaceport in French […]
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Air Force
Defense Watch
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Anything But Iraq. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said last week said that before the end of the congressional […]
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