Space
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SpaceInternational 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 […]
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SpaceX and Space Systems/Loral Sign Contract for Falcon 9 Geosynchronous Transfer Mission
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) have signed an agreement for the launch of an SS/L manufactured satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 as early as 2012. For […]
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Air Force Advocates Continued NPOESS Funding, Warns Over Launch Costs
By Marina Malenic Funding for development of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) should be sustained until a Defense Department requirements review for future weather satellites is completed, […]
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GeoEye Picks Lockheed Martin For NGA’s EnhancedView Satellite Program
By Geoff Fein GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY] last week said it has selected Lockheed Martin [LMT] to build the geospatial imagery company’s next- generation, high-resolution Earth imaging satellite system known as […]