Space
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SpaceNorthrop Grumman To Conduct Early-Intercept Work For MDA
By Marina Malenic The Missile Defense Agency has ordered some additional early-intercept demonstration experiments from Northrop Grumman [NOC] that will put to use technologies developed for the company’s recently terminated […]
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Senate Poised To Grant Early Endorsement of Obama Missile Defense Plan
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate was poised last week to approve a Pentagon money shift that would amount to one of lawmakers’ first endorsements of President Barack Obama’s new European […]
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P&W Successfully Tests Thruster for Unmanned Lunar Lander
Using technology developed for the nation’s ballistic missile defense system, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne [UTX] successfully completed hot-fire thruster tests demonstrating the ability of miniaturized thrusters to perform the descent […]
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Navy Demonstrates Tomahawk Anti-Jam Capability Against Time-Critical Targets
The Navy earlier this month demonstrated the effectiveness of the Tomahawk Block IV’s new anti-jam GPS system during an operational test, the service said. The Tomahawk Block IV was launched […]
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Lockheed Martin To Absorb JASSM Retrofit Costs, Air Force Says
By Marina Malenic The Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) will not suffer from cost overruns resulting from faulty components discovered in testing last year, the Air Force program […]
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STS-129 Launches on Logistics Mission to International Space Station
Space Shuttle Atlantis launched Nov. 16 on an 11-day mission to deliver 14 tons of supplies, science experiments and spare parts to the International Space Station as the outpost transitions […]
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STRATCOM Chief Warns of ‘Destabilizing’ Effects of Missile Defense
By Marina Malenic Expanding the U.S. missile defense program could inadvertently prompt nuclear proliferation on the part of countries like China, a top U.S. general warned recently. “We have to […]
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NASA’s LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water in Lunar Crater
Preliminary data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The LCROSS spacecraft and a companion […]
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ATK Awarded $100 Million Contract for Trident II Solid Rocket Propulsion
Alliant Techsystems [ATK] has received a $100 million contract from Lockheed Martin [LMT] to produce solid rocket propulsion systems for all three stages of the Navy’s Trident II (D-5) Fleet […]
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SES WORLD SKIES’ NSS-12 Satellite Successfully Launched on-board Ariane 5
SES WORLD SKIES on Oct. 29 announced that the NSS-12 satellite successfully roared into space on-board an Ariane 5 ECA booster from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Approximately […]