Space
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SpaceLaunch Preparations For GPS IIF SV-2 Begin
Officials from Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center have announced the delivery of the second in the series of 12 GPS IIF space vehicles to Cape Canaveral […]
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Space
White House ‘Confident’ Panetta Will Continue Gates Reform Agenda At DoD
President Barack Obama said he was “confident” that White House defense secretary nominee Leon Panetta would continue with efforts to trim the Pentagon’s bottom line, while ensuring that U.S. national […]
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Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Unveil More Details of Competitive JAGM Programs
NASHVILLE, Tenn.— Raytheon [RTN] revealed more rocket motor details and Lockheed Martin[LMT] unveiled results of tri-mode seeker tests detailing more of their competing solutions to the Army’s Joint Air-to-Ground Missile […]
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NASA Picks Four, Rejects 18 Firms To Further Develop Commercial Spacecraft
NASA is moving forward with its controversial plans to help develop a commercial space transportation industry, awarding more than $250 million in contracts to four firms to continue developing space […]
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Space
MDA Awards General Dynamics $565 Million Services Contract
General Dynamics [GD] recently said it has been awarded a contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Engineering and Support Services (MiDAESS) program to provide infrastructure and deployment services in […]
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Industry Teams Shaping Up For Air Force Space Test Range Contract
Several industry teams have announced their intent to compete for an upcoming Air Force space launch and test range contract. Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently said it has teamed up with […]
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SBIRS GEO-1 Poised For May Launch
The first geosynchronous satellite (GEO-1) in the Defense Department’s planned next-generation early missile warning constellation is being readied for launch in less than a month, Air Force officials overseeing the […]
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FY ’11 Defense Bill Continues U.S.-Israeli Missile Defense Cooperation
U.S.-Israeli cooperative missile-defense programs would receive $415.1 million in the final Continuing Resolution (CR) legislation for fiscal year 2011. The CR provides funding to keep the federal government operating for […]
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Space
NASA Would Snag Ability To Cancel Constellation Contracts Under Budget Plan
NASA will be allowed to cancel unwanted contracts from the defunct Constellation manned-spaceflight program if Congress passes the massive fiscal year 2011 budget deal reached late last week. The full-year […]
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Aurora Awarded NASA Contract, Company Says
NASA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a contract to develop Small Probes for Orbital Return of Experiments (SPORE), the company said. Aurora Flight Sciences has paired with Georgia Institute of […]