Space
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SpaceArmy Competition Opened ‘Pandora’s Box’ For HIMARS Program
By Ann Roosevelt Army officials are concerned about completing the buy of High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), after incumbant BAE Systems lost a competitive rebuy of the Family of Tactical […]
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Northrop Grumman To Move Corporate HQ To Virginia In 2011
Northrop Grumman [NOC] recently said it will move its corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to Northern Virginia in the summer of 2011. “Our final decision was driven largely by facility […]
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Orbital Launches First Minotaur IV For Air Force
Orbital Sciences [ORB] recently announced its successful launch of the first Minotaur IV rocket in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2) program. The […]
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Lockheed Martin Delivers Comms Module For Second MUOS Satellite
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has delivered a communications system module for the second satellite in the Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program, the company said yesterday. Supporting ultra-high frequency (UHF) […]
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Senators Prod MDA To Keep Hitting Sub-Par Contractors
By Emelie Rutherford A key lawmaker encouraged the Pentagon Apr. 20 to continue punishing companies for producing poor-quality missile-defense products, suggesting “warranties” be added to contracts to prevent the government […]
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First Minotaur IV Launches
Orbital Sciences [ORB] Apr. 22 launched the first of its Minotaur IV rockets in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2), according to the […]
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Boeing, 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 […]