Space
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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/FinancialRaytheon Gains $11.4 Million Patriot Facilities Contract
The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] an $11.4 million contract to support Patriot missile defense facilities this year. The Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., issued the […]
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Business/FinancialSpace Shuttle Discovery Poised For Liftoff At 9:20 P.M. Wednesday; NASA Solves Problem With Fuel System Flow Control Valves Breaking
Discovery Launch A Day Earlier Than Expected; NASA Likely Can Execute Its Five Planned Space Shuttle Missions This Year, On Schedule Satellites Colliding Raise Risk Of Catastrophic Damage To Space […]
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Business/FinancialSenator Orders NASA To Provide Documents About Small Firm Under Investigation
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, told NASA to turn over documents relating to a federal probe of a company that […]
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Business/FinancialObama Will Kill European Missile Defense In Deal With Russia That Can’t Work: Analyst
Airborne Laser To Die As Well President Obama will enter a deal with the Russians where the United States will agree to drop or defer indefinitely plans for a European […]
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Business/FinancialNASA Official Indicted For Steering Deals To Clients
Courtney Stadd, a former NASA official who left the agency, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly using a temporary NASA post he held later to help steer […]
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Business/FinancialOrbital Taurus XL Rocket Fails To Orbit CO2-Sensing Satellite When Fairing Doesn’t Separate
Loss Of Orbiting Carbon Observatory A Blow To Examining Sources, Destinations Of Greenhouse Gas NASA Goddard Deputy Director To Lead Probe Of OCO Glitch An Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] Taurus […]
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SpaceSpace Shuttle Discovery Launch Now Set For March 12; But Review Of Worrisome Valves Still Continues
Experts To Meet Wednesday To Reassess Safety Concerns March 12 Liftoff At 8:54 P.M. ET Would Mean On-Schedule Launches For Hubble, Station Missions The much-delayed Space Shuttle Discovery now may […]
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Business/FinancialReport Says Obama Offered To Kill European Missile Defense System If Russia Helps Curb Iran
Report Appeared In Russian Paper President Obama offered to kill plans to build the European Missile Defense (EMD) system if Russia would help the United States force Iran to abandon […]
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Business/FinancialKepler Launch Date Slips A Day; Liftoff Now Set For Friday At Either 10:49 Or 11:13 P.M. ET
Delay Allows Time To Ensure Kepler Doesn’t Meet Fate Of Satellite Last Week The Kepler space telescope launch has been shifted to Friday night, a day later than planned, so […]