Space
-
Business/FinancialNASA Gives Wackenhut $1.2 Billion, 10-Year Security Contract After Wackenhut Sues NASA For Awarding Work To Coastal
NASA gave Wackenhut Services Inc. a $1.2 billion contract to provide security services at NASA installations, after Wackenhut successfully sued the space agency when it earlier had awarded the contract […]
-
Homeland Security
Mikulski Panel Writes Fiscal 2010 Budget Plan That Avoids Draconian House Financing Cuts, Supports NASA Programs Including Shuttle, Station
Bill Provides $18.68 Billion, Including $3.5 Billion To Develop New Spaceship System; NOAA To Get $1.2 Billion For Satellite Programs, Mikulski Announces Bill Mandates Warning When Program Costs Go 10 […]
-
InternationalEuropean Space Agency Plans Ground Station In Argentina
Making Another ESA Facility In South America, After Spaceport The European Space Agency (ESA) announced plans for a ground station to be built in South America, assuming negotiations are successful. […]
-
Business/Financial
Obama’s Missile Defense Cuts Prevail In Both Senate Armed Services Panel, And In Entire House
Funding Restoration Amendments Are Rejected Even More Cuts May Gouge Missile Defense Programs In Future Years, Lawmaker Warns Both the entire House and a key Senate panel backed President Obama’s […]
-
Business/Financial
Space Tracking And Surveillance System Satellite Delivered To Canaveral For Launch Prep
The first Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., for launch preparation, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. "This delivery is a significant […]
-
SpaceIt Could — And May — Get Worse: Rep. Lamborn Sees Even More Cuts Looming In Missile Defense Programs
Each Year May Bring Further Reductions In Missile Defense Funding Support, Lamborn Predicts While proponents of missile defense programs have expressed dismay at budget cuts now hitting those defensive shields, […]
-
Space
Ocean May Hide Within Saturnian Moon; Salt Provides Clue For Cassini Mission
Salt may signal that an underground ocean lurks inside a moon circling Saturn, according to NASA. The Cassini spacecraft discovered sodium, or salt, for the first time in grains of […]
-
Business/Financial
Senate Defense Authorization Bill Leaves European Missile Defense Program With No Construction Funds, Chairman Levin Says
But Defense Measure Also Encourages Talks With Russians Over Possible Joint Radar The pending Senate defense authorization bill leaves the European Missile Defense (EMD) program with just $51 million for […]
-
International
NASA 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 […]
-
Space
Two 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. […]