Space
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SpaceOrbital Awarded New Contract For IS-23 Communications Satellite by Intelsat
Orbital Sciences Corporation [ORB] Dec. 17 said that it has been selected by Intelsat, the leading provider of fixed satellite services, to design, build and deliver the Intelsat 23 (IS-23) […]
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ATK Successfully Tests Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor
Alliant Techsystems [ATK] Dec. 15 performed a ground test of a full-scale attitude control motor (ACM) for the launch abort system (LAS) of NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle at ATK’s […]
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Lockheed Martin Achieves Critical ’09 Global Ballistic Missile Defense Milestones
Lockheed Martin [LMT] missile defense systems achieved several key milestones in 2009, including five successful intercepts and numerous other major accomplishments, the company said recently. With 20 successful Aegis BMD […]
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Wind River Operating System Selected by NASA For Ares I and V
Wind River last week said that NASA has selected its VxWorks 653 as the real-time operating system for the flight and command computers in the Ares I and Ares V […]
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Draper Labs Gives GD Potential $110 Million Contract For Trident II Work
General Dynamics [GD] Advanced Information Systems has been awarded a three-year contract potentially worth $100 million by Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to produce integrated circuits for the Navy’s Trident II […]
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ULA Caps Banner Launch Year With Successful NASA WISE Launch
Completing an incredible year in which it launched 16 successful missions, United Launch Alliance capped 2009 with the launch of a Delta II carrying NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) […]
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2nd Stage Rocket Motor of Taurus II Launcher Successfully Ground Tested
Orbital Sciences Corporation [ORB] recently said that Alliant Techsystems [ATK] and the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) successfully ground tested the second stage rocket motor of the company’s […]
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NASA Seeks Input On Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program
By Marina Malenic NASA recently announced that it is considering two significant procurement actions in the area of commercial reusable suborbital spaceflight services. The agency “is requesting technical and programmatic […]
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Successful Launch of Helios 2B satellite
The Helios 2B military observation satellite, built for the French Ministry of Defence by EADS Astrium as prime contractor and featuring a very-high-resolution optical imaging instrument produced by Thales Alenia […]
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JFCOM Collaborates To Create Joint Missile Training Environment
By Ann Roosevelt U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) last week hosted the All Things Missile (ATM) proof of concept demonstration, a collaborative effort to consolidate disparate missile simulation environments into […]