Space
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SpaceAdvocacy 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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Space
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 […]
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Powers X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Launch
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne [UTX] Apr. 22 helped boost into orbit the U.S. military’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. “Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is pleased to provide power for the U.S. […]
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CongressSenate Panel Slams Constellation Cancellation
By Emelie Rutherford A week after President Barack Obama announced he will not completely kill NASA’s Orion space capsule, the space agency’s director yesterday faced senators angry about the administration’s […]
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Space
NASA Expects No Net Job Losses Despite End of Constellation Program
By Marina Malenic Top leaders of NASA last week defended President Barrack Obama’s Fiscal 2011 agency budget from criticism that jobs will be lost if Congress agrees to terminate the […]
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MEADS Technologies ‘Fully Mature’ Leading To Key Review, GAO Says
By Marina Malenic The Army’s Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program’s five critical technologies are fully mature ahead of a scheduled Critical Design Review (CDR) in August, congressional auditors […]
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Space
ATK to Produce A2100 Satellite Bus Structures For GPS III
ATK [ATK] has been awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build the A2100 satellite bus structures for the next- generation Global Positioning System, or GPS III. The first […]
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Space
First Live Warhead Flight for Lockheed Martin’s Multi-Purpose Hellfire II Missile
Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] multi-purpose AGM114R HELLFIRE II missile scored another success in its second proof-of-principle (POP) flight test, the first armed with a live warhead, the company said Thursday. “This […]