Space
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SpaceWind 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 […]
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Orbital Awarded Phase 2 Contract For System 6
Orbital Sciences Corporation [ORB] said Dec. 18 that it has been awarded a Phase 2 contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Arlington, VA, to develop the final […]
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Aegis BMD 4.0.1 Successfully Tracks And Engages Targets
The second generation of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, BMD 4.0.1, successfully detected, tracked and conducted simulated engagements against a variety of different ballistic missile targets […]
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Northrop Grumman Advanced Composite Mate Joint Passes Stringent Tests
An innovative method for joining composite structures implemented by Northrop Grumman [NOC] has passed a series of intensive structural tests, paving the way for the use of composites in future […]