Space
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Business/FinancialBoeing Hands Over Wideband Satellite To Air Force
The Boeing Co. [BA] transferred control of the second Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite to the Air Force, which will monitor and control the new satellite from Schriever Air Force […]
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Business/Financial
North Korea Aims For Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, General Predicts
North Korea aims to produce intercontinental ballistic missiles, a general said. Air Force Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and commander of the […]
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Business/Financial
Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) Completes Program
The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system completed integration and testing of the space segment, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Initial testing of the ground segments also was completed. This […]
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Business/Financial
Study: NPOESS Has ‘Extraordinarily Low Probability Of Success;’ Significant Risk That Data Continuity Will Be Lost
NPOESS Program Run With Cost Savings Paramount, Not Mission Success: Study Witnesses: NPOESS Is Broke, And It Is Time To Fix It; Yet Another $1 Billion Cost Rise Is Predicted […]
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Business/Financial
AEHF Satellite In Tests
The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (Advanced EHF) military communications satellite is now undergoing final thermal vacuum testing, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. The second AEHF satellite completed thermal vacuum […]
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Business/Financial
O’Reilly Touts Airborne Laser For Second Successful Tracking Test, Even As MDA Budget Cuts ABL
Military Leaders Say Total U.S. Missile Defense System Has 90 Percent Chance Of Success Sens. Sessions, Begich, Flail Cuts In Missile Defense Budget Before Study Is Done; Sen. Thune Backs […]
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CongressSen. Ensign, On NASA Oversight Panel, Had An Extramarital Affair: Reports
Sen. Burris, on Senate Armed Services Committee, Won’t Be Indicted Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee science and space subcommittee overseeing NASA, […]
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Business/Financial
ABL Contractors Highlight Airborne Laser Tracking Feats, Even As Congress Weighs Abandoning ABL As An Operational System
By Ann Roosevelt The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Boeing [BA], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] industry team said the prototype Airborne Laser (ABL) successfully conducted its […]
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Homeland Security
China May Be Set To Orbit Space Military Forces, Analyst Says
A Chinese military analyst suggested that the People’s Liberation Army should establish a space military force to protect Chinese assets, such as its 54 satellites, the China Daily reported. China […]
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Business/Financial
Two Soyuz To Launch Twin Galileo Navigation Satellites Next Year: Arianespace
Two Arianespace-led Russian Soyuz spacecraft each will launch two Galileo navigational satellites next year two begin construction of the navigational constellation, the company announced. The European Space Agency aims to […]