Space
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Business/FinancialFuture Combat Systems Active Protection System Passes Interception Tests
The Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) projectile shield Active Protection System (APS) passed interception tests, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. Those tests involved both stationary and moving targets. APS defeats multiple […]
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Homeland Security
The Bad Bear Is Back: Russia Fires ICBM From Sub To Target Area In Pacific Ocean, And Fires A Land-Based ICBM, As Medvedev Watches
Sub Missile Flies 7,200 Miles In Test, After Russian Threats To Nuke European Missile Defense System If U.S. Dares To Build It Missile Launches Add To Tensions From Renewed Russian […]
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SpaceNASA Launch Schedule
Updated — October 9, 2008 – 12:50 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Oct. 19 Mission: IBEX Launch […]
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Business/Financial
How To Cut Your Commute To Mars: Engineers Study Constant Acceleration, Deceleration To Slash Half-Year Trip
Continual Speedup, Slowdown Could Provide An Artificial Gravity, Eliminating Harm Weightlessness Causes Astronauts HAMPTON, Va. — Engineers working on the next-generation Constellation Program spaceship system design are considering propulsion units […]
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Business/Financial
Orbital To Deliver Satellite To SES
Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite, the company announced. The engineering team completed pre-shipment procedures for the satellite, which will […]
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Business/Financial
Future Orion Spacecraft Will Be Far Safer Than Space Shuttles, According To Lockheed Vice President And Former Astronaut
In Space Shuttle Program, 14 Crew Members So Far Died Over 17 Years In Two Disasters; NASA, Lockheed, Learning From Tragedies Reightler Says New System Eliminates Threats From Ice And […]
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Business/Financial
Contracts
Space Systems/Loral Gains Contract To Provide Satellite For SES SES, the European satellite operator, will buy another Loral satellite. Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL] […]
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Homeland Security
U.S. Preeminence In Space Slips Away. As China, India, Russia Accelerate Their Space Programs: House Panel
Report Urges Revamping Defense, Intelligence Space Acquisition, Assails Sole-Source Contracts Better Relations Needed Between Military-Intelligence Agencies And Commercial Satellite Data Firms "The United States is losing its preeminence in space," […]
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Business/Financial
Navy Needs Ships It Can Evolve To Meet Growing Ballistic, Cruise Missile Threats, Official Says
Vice Admiral Says Missile Threat Justifies Shift From Building New-Design Destroyers Back To Older Arleigh Burke Design By Geoff Fein The Navy has to move toward an open systems environment […]
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Homeland Security
China Leaders See Space Program As An Investment, Not As A Gigantic Expense As U.S. Lawmakers Do
With Space Program, China Sees Military, Economic, Political Gains; China Makes Careful But Large Moves China sees its space program as an investment, not as an unwelcome budgetary outlay, a […]