Space
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Business/FinancialDeep Missile Defense Cuts Would Toss Tens Of Thousands Of Workers Out Of Good Jobs Amidst Economic Recession
Airborne Laser Is Adaptable; Can Relocate Around Globe In Hours, Not Weeks Missile Defense Systems Already Share Sensor Data From Radars, Briefers Say If leaders in Washington make crippling cuts […]
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Indian Space Researd Organization Launches Satellite Designed With Input From Israelis: Jerusalem Post
India yesterday launched a satellite developed by and for Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported. The TecSar satellite, a reconnaissance vehicle, was launched last night by an Indian Polar Satellite Launch […]
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Northrop Official Sees Possible Cuts In Ballistic Missile Program Budgets
Airborne Laser Offers Unique Technologies; Kinetic Energy Interceptor Advances Ballistic missile defense programs may face funding reductions just when those programs are about to provide a payoff after years of […]
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Payload 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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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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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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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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Space Junk Narrowly Misses Space Station As Crew Members Take Shelter In Soyuz; Incident Demonstrates Rising Space Junk Threat
A piece of space junk hurtling through the void narrowly missed hitting and depressurizing the $100 billion International Space Station, forcing station crew members to take brief shelter in a […]
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Missile Defense Critic Lauds Obama Offer To Discuss Missile Defense
A long-time critic of the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system endorsed President Obama’s offer to discuss the EMD with Russians who vociferously oppose it. Theodore Postol, an MIT professor […]