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Business/FinancialSatellite Firms Should See Growth As Need For Imagery Mounts, Official Says
By Geoff Fein Even with the concern over dwindling defense budgets and the high cost of putting satellites into orbit, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) sees the […]
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Business/Financial
United Space Alliance To Layoff 15 Percent of Shuttle Workforce
The Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] joint venture United Space Alliance (USA) yesterday said it will layoff about 15 percent of its current Space Shuttle support workforce to better […]
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SpaceMBDA Successfully Completes Four Aster Missile Shots
MBDA last week said it successfully completed firings of its Aster 30 missile to demonstrate the effectiveness of the missile. Over the last month, the firings were conducted from the […]
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Space
Senators Charge NASA Not Following Law With Constellation Wind Down
By Emelie Rutherford Six pro-NASA senators are ramping up their complaints that the agency allegedly is not following the law and fully funding the ill-fated Constellation space flight program before […]
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Space
Lockheed Martin Completes GPS IIIB Milestone
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said recently that it successfully completed a key requirements review for the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIIB satellite series under the Air Force’s next generation GPS III […]
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Space
Harris Awarded $140 Million Contract to Modernize Ground Segment for NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
General Dynamics [GD] awarded Harris [HRS] a five-year, $140 million contract by to modernize the ground segment of the satellite communications network used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration […]
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Space
Navy Awards Raytheon $368 Million in Contracts for SM-6
The Navy awarded Raytheon [RTN] contracts totaling $368 million with potential modifications for low rate initial production to manufacture Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) systems over a three-year period. “Low rate initial […]
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Space
Air Force Anticipates New SBIRS Capabilities With GEO-1 Launch
By Marina Malenic The first geosynchronous Space-based Infrared System (SBIRS) missile-warning satellite is expected to provide new tactical support capabilities in addition to its strategic mission, the Air Force program […]
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Space
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Demonstrates Descent Engine Technologies for Future Space Vehicle Landings
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne‘s [UTX] Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE) demonstrated a throttling range 35 percent greater than in previous tests, as well as several new technology breakthroughs to support […]
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Space
Orbital’s Pegasus and Taurus Rockets Selected to Launch Two NASA Scientific Satellites
Orbital Sciences Corporation [ORB] July 1 said it received two separate orders from NASA to launch scientific satellites on its industry-leading small rockets, Pegasus XL and Taurus XL. “Pegasus and […]