Space
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SpaceBoeing, Raytheon Fund First Test Firing of Their JAGM
By Geoff Fein Using their own internal research and development funds, Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] fired the first Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) during a test at White Sands Missile […]
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DoD: New Missile Defense Plan To Protect Europe With ‘Proven’ Systems
By Marina Malenic The Obama administration plans to provide full missile defense coverage of Europe against an Iranian attack by 2018 using “proven” U.S. systems, top Defense Department officials said […]
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Space
Aerojet Completes Second Series of Vibration and Hot Fire Risk Reduction Engine Tests for NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle
Aerojet, a GenCorp [GY] company, successfully completed a second series of vibration and altitude hot-fire tests on its 160-pound thrust mono- propellant rocket engine planned for use on NASA’s Orion […]
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Obama Revives Scaled-Down Orion Program For NASA
By Marina Malenic Pledging a “transformative agenda” for NASA, President Barack Obama said his new national space plan aims to send Americans to an asteroid and eventually to Mars in […]
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Space
DoD Gives Preview of New Obama Space Policy
By Marina Malenic The Obama administration’s new space policy will emphasize cooperation with other space-faring nations as well as the creation of good “rules of the road” as technology evolves […]
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Space
Quality Is Focus of Arianespace following Ariane 5’s launch postponement
Arianespace has initiated a multi-phase effort to pinpoint and resolve the technical issue that postponed its initial Ariane 5 flight of 2010, as well as revalidate quality control procedures for […]
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Advocacy Group Calls For Detailed U.S. Space Strategy
By Marina Malenic An aviation industry advocacy group called on President Barack Obama to lay out a strategy for human spaceflight, including concrete timelines, when he arrived in Florida for […]
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Army Seeks Responses To JAGM Draft RFP
The Army wants responses and comments by April 30 to its draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) engineering and manufacturing development and low-rate initial production. The […]
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Space
Honeywell Develops SERDES Electronics Selected for International Space Station
Honeywell [HON] said recently that the space industry’s first radiation hardened electronic component for communication systems, which improves the speed of serial data communication fifty-fold over existing space electronics, has […]
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Space
Lockheed Martin Delivers the 1,000th JAASM To Air Force
Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) program team has delivered its 1,000th missile to the Air Force. “This milestone shows the resolve of Lockheed Martin employees to deliver […]