Space
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SpaceAir Force Expands GPS Coverage By Repositioning Satellites
The 50th Space Wing at Schriever AFB, Colo., has completed the first of a two-phase Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation expansion known as “Expandable-24,” the wing said recently. When fully […]
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Industry Teams Submit Proposals For GMD Development And Sustainment To MDA
Teams led Lockheed Martin [LMT]-Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA]-Northrop Grumman [NOC] last week submitted proposals for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract to the Missile Defense Agency’s […]
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Space
DoD Awards Two Space Fence Design Contracts
Raytheon [RTN] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] have each received a $107 million contract for preliminary design of a next- generation tracking radar that will monitor objects in space. Under the […]
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DoD, Northrop Grumman Look To Finalize New DWSS Contract By End of Year
Air Force Space and Missile Command (SMC), along with industry counterparts at Northrop Grumman [NOC] plan to have a contract in place for the service’s new defense weather satellite system […]
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Space
Raytheon Awarded $145 million For Patriot GEM-T Missiles For Kuwait
Raytheon [RTN] last week said it received a $145 million Foreign Military Sales production contract for Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missiles-Tactical (GEM-T) to augment Kuwait’s air and missile defense. The U.S. […]
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Lawmakers Prod NASA To Stop Funding Constellation, Build New Rocket
Lawmakers are trying to stop NASA from spending more money on the dismantled Constellation program and pushing back at the space agency’s claim that it can’t build a new heavy- […]
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Airborne Laser Shoot-Down Test Postponed Due To Weather
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said it has delayed a repeat attempt to destroy a target missile using a chemical laser integrated into a Boeing [BA] 747 aircraft. The […]
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Space
Army NanoSat Demonstrates Niche Military Capability
By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s first service-built and operated satellite in 50 years exceeded expectations during its short orbital life that is expected to end by burning up while reentering […]
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Sat-Ops Center Goes Live With Launch of STPSat-2
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said that the satellite command and control system–the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Ground System Architecture– recently went operational with the successful launch of the multi-payload experimental Space […]
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New Defense Law Aims To Grow Defense Industrial Base
By Emelie Rutherford The policy-setting defense authorization law President Barack Obama signed recently calls for the Pentagon to work to expand the defense-industrial base and consider securing the rights to […]