Space
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Business/FinancialOfficial Says U.S. Space Industry Needs To Use Foreign Suppliers To Enter Foreign Markets; Commerce Department Agency To Be ‘Facilitator’ For U.S. Industry
Global demand for space-based capabilities will continue its rapid growth, and the U.S. government should aid U.S. industry as it seeks business overseas, a Commerce Department official said. Ed Morris, […]
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Business/Financial
Bartlett Hits Multi-Agency Setup For Delaying NPOESS; He Says System Rewards Contractors For Cost Overruns
The unending woes of the over-budget, under-performing, behind-schedule National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) may have been inevitable even before the program began, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) indicated. Not […]
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Homeland Security
Iranian Nuclear Program May Mean That Israel Loses Its Trump Card As A Unique Nuclear-Armed Middle Eastern Nation
Iran, as it continues to produce nuclear materials that might be used to assemble nuclear weapons, threatens to end Israel’s singular role as a nuclear-armed nation in the region, a […]
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SpacePhoenix Lander Discovers Frozen Water On Mars; Even If Ice Doesn’t Indicate Former Life There, It Would Be A Crucial Material For Human Explorers
The Phoenix Mars Lander, a miner for a heart of ice, has found what researchers say they are sure is frozen water on the fourth planet from the sun. Phoenix […]
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Business/Financial
SBIRS Sensor Completes Early On-Orbit Checkout
The Air Force completed an early on-orbit checkout of the second space based infrared systems (SBIRS) sensor. That craft is in a highly elliptical orbit (HEO) over the northern hemisphere. […]
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Business/Financial
Contract
NASA Awards $1.5 Billion Kennedy Space Center Contract NASA gave EG&G Technical Services Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., a contract worth up to $1.5 billion to provide institutional services at Kennedy […]
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Air ForceNew AT&L Shop For Space And Intel Acquisition Oversight Established
By Emelie Rutherford A new organization within the Pentagon acquisition chief’s office responsible for all acquisition oversight of Defense Department space and intelligence programs has been officially established with Joshua […]
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SpaceATK Launch Systems and Space Systems Merging
Two units of Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] will merge, the company announced. The Launch Systems and Space Systems groups are combining into a single business unit, the company stated. They […]
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Space
AEHF Satellite Program Progresses
The second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite saw its spacecraft core structure mated with the payload module, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. AEHF will provide global, highly […]