Space
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Business/FinancialGAO Denies Raytheon Protest Of Sole-Source Aegis Mod Contract To Lockheed Martin
Systems Upgrading Work Will Proceed On Navy Destroyers , Cruisers The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied Raytheon Co. [RTN] protests against several sole-source, non-competitive contracts that the Navy earmarked for […]
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SpaceLunar Orbiter Passes Thermal Vacuum Test
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, completed thermal vacuum testing, NASA announced. Those tests simulate extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space that LRO will experience after launch. This […]
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Homeland Security
Israel Entered Gaza Strip Only After Being Hit By Thousands Of Hamas Missiles
Hamas terrorists fired more than 3,000 rockets and mortars into Israel during the past year, which included a cease-fire period, according to the Israel Project, a Washington- based backer of […]
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Business/Financial
Lockheed Delivers Subsystems For SBIRS Geo-2 Satellite
Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the spacecraft bus subsystems for the emergent Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, Lockheed announced. It will be the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) satellite in the […]
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Business/Financial
If Israel Had Full Missile Defense System, It Wouldn’t Have To Enter Gaza Strip
The value of missile defense systems has been proven by the unending torrent of missiles that Hamas has launched into Israel from the Gaza Strip, a U.S. missile defense expert […]
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Space
Report Details Causes Of Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster; Some Unknowns Remain, Panel Finds
A new report from a study panel details the causes leading to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, with the panel recommending many corrective and preventive moves to avert […]
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Business/Financial
Arianespace Plans For Three Satellite Launches
Lockheed Decides To Use Ariane 5 Rocket To Launch Satellite For Japanese Operators In Liftoff From South American Spaceport Arianespace announced it will provide lift capability to orbit several satellites […]
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Business/Financial
Ariane 5 Launches Two Satellites
An Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket lifted off from the spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, South America, to launch two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits. Those satellites were accurately […]
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Business/Financial
Russia Launches Three Glonass-M Satellites On Proton Rocket
Russia launched three Glonass-M navigational satellites on a Proton robotic rocket that soared on Christmas from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Itar-Tass reported. That brings the total number of Glonass […]
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Business/Financial
GAO Denies Raytheon Protest Of Sole-Source Aegis Mod Contract To Lockheed Martin
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Dec. 22 denied Raytheon’s [RTN] protests against several sole-source, non-competitive contracts that the Navy earmarked for Lockheed Martin [LMT] for modernization of Aegis weapon-control systems […]