Space
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SpaceRaytheon Positions For Major Role As Missile Defense Advances
By Ann Roosevelt Raytheon [RTN] is ready to play a “significant” role as missile defense moves forward, particularly with the four-phased incremental approach for Europe announced last fall, officials said. […]
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Boeing Awaits Air Force Decision On Harvesting TSAT Capabilities
By Marina Malenic Boeing [BA] executives said recently that they are awaiting Pentagon decisions on which capabilities from a now-canceled major satellite communications program will be harvested and inserted into […]
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DoD Sees Export Reforms Aiding Post-Constellation Space Industry
By Emelie Rutherford Faced with lawmakers concerned about how proposed NASA changes might harm the solid-rocket-motor industrial base, Pentagon officials said recently they hope easing export processes would help impacted […]
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International Launch Services and Telesat Announce the ILS Proton Launch of Nimiq 6 in 2012
International Launch Services (ILS) and Telesat recently announced a contract for the ILS Proton launch of Telesat’s Nimiq 6 satellite scheduled for mid-2012. “ILS has a longstanding history with Telesat […]
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NASA Calls Industry Response On Commercial Suborbital Study ‘Excellent’
By Marina Malenic NASA said recently that it has received “excellent response” from the commercial reusable suborbital spaceflight industry to a request for information (RFI) released in December. The agency […]
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Pentagon Studying Impact of NASA Constellation Cancellation
By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon officials are studying how President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel NASA’s Constellation spaceflight program would impact the military’s solid-rocket-motor efforts. The White House’s fiscal year 2011 […]
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Business/FinancialMDA Chief: Quality Control of Missile-Defense Products Major Challenge
By Emelie Rutherford A senior Pentagon official told missile-defense contractors yesterday "quality control" of industry products is so poor it has risen to be one of the preeminent problems facing […]
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Air ForcePentagon Studying Impact of NASA Constellation Cancellation
By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon officials are studying how President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel NASA’s Constellation spaceflight program would impact the military’s solid-rocket-motor efforts. The White House’s fiscal year 2011 […]
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Space
Pentagon Studying Impact of NASA Constellation Cancellation
By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon officials are studying how President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel NASA’s Constellation spaceflight program would impact the military’s solid-rocket-motor efforts. The White House’s fiscal year 2011 […]
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Space
Aerojet and Orbital Complete Main Engine Lifetime Testing for Taurus II Space Launch Vehicle
Aerojet, a GenCorp [GY] company, and Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB], along with Aerojet’s Russian partner, SNTK, announced today that a series of NK-33 rocket engine tests conducted in Samara, Russia […]