Space
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SpaceFirst 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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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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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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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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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
Boeing Hands Over GOES-P Satellite to NASA for Final Testing
Boeing [BA] last week announced that it transferred control of the third Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-P) to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on March 24 […]
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Selex Galileo, Northrop Grumman, Demonstrate ECLIPSE Maturity
Finmeccanica‘s Selex Galileo recently announced the results of recent U.S. government reliability and characterization tests demonstrated the maturity of the latest infrared countermeasure system ECLIPSE, developed with Northrop Grumman [NOC]. […]