Space
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InternationalNASA Seeks Input On Cataloguing Documents Of Wernher Von Braun
NASA requested suggestions on how to organize documents from from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system. The space agency would welcome thoughts from […]
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SpaceTwo NASA Lunar Spacecraft Operating Well, Poised For Moon-Mapping And Lunar-Crash Missions; Search For Frozen Water On Course
Lunar Impacts Set For Oct. 9 Two NASA spacecraft are healthy and ramping up their systems, poised for pioneering lunar missions that will net key information for future manned U.S. […]
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Business/FinancialSenate Appropriators Excoriate NPOESS, Voice ‘Lack Of Confidence’ In Program Management, But Provide Full Funding
Obama Administration Isn’t Seizing Control Of NPOESS To Fix Problems, Lawmakers Say The Senate Appropriations Committee expressed exasperation with the long-troubled National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, but […]
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Business/Financial
Sea Launch Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy But Says It Wishes To Continue Operating
Sea Launch, the company that provided a mid-ocean launch pad, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but said it wishes to continue operations. The filing came after the company had […]
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Business/Financial
Iranian Leader Disparages Obama, Compares Him To Bush; Ahmadinejad Demands Obama Apologize To Iran
Obama Is Appalled At Iran Mistreating, Killing Protesters Who Allege Vote Fraud Chances Dim For Major Reduction In Iranian Missile-Nuclear Threat That Could Justify Abandoning European Missile Defense President Obama’s […]
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Business/Financial
Schwartz Mulls Aircraft-Mounted Air Launched Hit-To-Kill Missile Defense Systems
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz is examining the feasibility of missile defense systems mounted on aircraft, such as strike fighters. Interest in the Air Launched Hit-to-Kill systems […]
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CongressMinot Nukes Force Passes Inspection; A Turn-Around From Mistaken Handling Of Six Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missiles
Nuclear forces at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., passed inspections with the highest possible score. That’s a reversal from the situation two years ago, when six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles were […]
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Business/Financial
Adm. Mullen ‘Very Confident’ United States Can Shoot Down North Korean Missiles; They Will Advance To Range Hitting U.S. Soil
North Korea May Launch Taepo Dong-2 Missile On Saturday, Perhaps Toward Hawaii: Reports U.S. missile defense systems very likely can demolish any missile that North Korea launches to hit U.S. […]
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Business/Financial
GOES-O Satellite Launched To Orbit Atop Delta IV Rocket From Cape
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket roared from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Saturday evening, to place a Geostationary Operational Environmental […]
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Business/Financial
GPS IIF Satellite Journeys Nationwide To Test Transit, Launch Site, Ground Control
A Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite called SV-2 took a transcontinental flight on a C-17 from California to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., but only for a visit, […]