Space
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Business/FinancialGeospatial Intelligence Leader Sees Rising Use Of Commercial Satellites For Intelligence Gathering Work
Vice Adm. Murrett: U.S. Systems Can Detect Enemy Tunnels, Spot Individuals As They Walk U.S. intelligence efforts are using huge amounts of civilian space imaging capabilities, and that will continue, […]
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SpaceCongress Passes R&D Tax Credit Extension; Industry Sought Action To Aid Investment
Congress enacted a research and development tax credit extension that the aerospace industry had sought, a measure that was included in a larger bill to bail out portions of the […]
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Homeland Security
Dangers In Iran Have Been Downplayed; Iranian Military Forces Aren’t Rogue Units, But Rather Are Part Of Iranian Government
Some analysts and observers, who assert that certain especially dangerous military actors in Iran don’t really represent government views and motives, are dead wrong, a new paper states. In fact, […]
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Business/Financial
IBEX Spacecraft To Launch Oct. 19 From Kwajalein Atoll On Mission To Study Solar System-Galaxy Limits
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft will launch Oct. 19 from Kwajalein Atoll on a mission to study the heliopause boundary between the solar system and open galactic space, […]
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Space
Space Shuttle Discovery Now May Replace Endeavour On Rescue Duty For Atlantis
Space Shuttle Discovery may take the place of Space Shuttle Endeavour in performing standby life-guard duty when Space Shuttle Atlantis blasts off to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis was […]
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Business/Financial
SpaceX Finally Launches Falcon 1, Rocket Soars To Orbit On Fourth Try
Launch Is A Win For Both SpaceX And NASA, Which Needs Commercial Transport Capabilities To Space Station Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, yesterday finally attained success in launching a […]
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Space
U.S. Spacecraft Goes On Display At Smithsonian Air And Space Museum
The Stardust spacecraft, which collected the first particles from a comet, will go on display at the Smithsonian Institution Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C., NASA […]
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Space
NASA Delays Launches Of Space Shuttles By Four Days Each, Because Hurricane Ike Forced Johnson Space Center To Close
Atlantis Now Blasts Off At 10:19 P.M. ET On Oct. 14, While Endeavour Will Launch At 7:07 P.M. ET Nov. 16, NASA Announces NASA delayed its next two space shuttle […]
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Business/Financial
Air Force Move To Avert Possible Industry Protest Of Pending Satellite Contract Could Delay Award
By Marina Malenic The Air Force is doing "everything humanly possible" to ensure that any industry protest of an upcoming multibillion-dollar satellite contract will not be upheld by auditors, but […]
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CongressKinetic Energy Interceptor Test Success Resolves Problems With Nozzles, Rocket Motor Pressure Spike
Congress Gives KEI Program Full Appropriations Funding Of $386 Million, As Bush Requested The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) ballistic missile interceptor system, in a successful rocket motor test last week, […]