Space
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Business/FinancialPayload Added To Loral Launch
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will add a government payload to Sirius 5, a satellite for SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (Luxembourg Stock Exchange:SESG), currently under construction at the spacecraft manufacturing facility in California. […]
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Business/Financial
Another Missile Defense Success: THAAD Kills Target Missile
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense system scored another successful hit against a target missile, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. That successful hit was scored […]
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SpaceNASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Missions
Updated — March 6, 2009 – 12:10 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: March 6 Mission: Kepler Launch […]
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Business/Financial
Government Gambles Johnson Space Center Won’t Be Hit By Big Storm — Hurricane Rita Repairs Funded, But Preventive Work Unfunded
Uncertainty Plagues Johnson Workforce As Key NASA Posts Go Unfilled For Months The federal government is betting that a huge storm won’t hit Johnson Space Center head-on, deciding to pay […]
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Business/Financial
Space Tourist Simonyi To Launch Thursday On Soyuz For Record-Setting Second Space Tourist Flight To Station
Charles Simonyi will launch Thursday on a Soyuz space vehicle, becoming the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station twice. He is the seventh tourist whose voyage was […]
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Homeland Security
Czech Republic Parliamentary Chamber Cancels Vote To Authorize European Missile Defense System Radar Installation
The European Missile Defense (EMD) system ran into further problems when the Czech Republic lower house in parliament canceled a vote on whether to approve the EMD. Czech lawmakers in […]
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Homeland Security
Russia May Place Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missiles On Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines: Russian News Report
Russia may place nuclear-tipped cruise missiles aboard nuclear-powered attack submarines, according to the RIA Novosti Russian news service. The report quoted Russian Vice Adm. Oleg Burtsev, deputy head of the […]
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Business/Financial
Cartwright Says Missile Defense Systems Must Be Able To Perform Multiple Missions; Urges Common Use Of Sensors For Systems
General Says Missile Defense Programs Require Stable, Funding Over Years Missile defense programs must be able to handle multiple tasks in a cost-saving and efficient manner, because the military can […]
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Business/Financial
Raytheon Gains $106 Million Pact Providing JSOWs To Navy, Allies
The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $106 million contract to produce Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 missiles for the Navy and key allies. The new C-1 variant will be network-enabled, […]
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Business/Financial
Raytheon Sees Vast New Opportunity For Standard Missile-3 Marketing With Land-Based SM-3s In VLS Tubes
The United States could gain a premier land-based missile defense interceptor, quickly and at low cost, merely by making the currently sea-based Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors land-based assets as well, […]