Space
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InternationalChina Develops Medium-Range Missile That Can Kill U.S. Aircraft Carriers
China has developed and is about to deploy medium-range missiles that can hit U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, according to a report in The Washington Times. The Department of Defense is […]
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Business/FinancialU.S. Leaders Need To Discuss Why U.S. Procurement Is Open To Overseas Wares, While Some Foreign Acquisition Programs Are Closed To U.S. Products: Aide
The United States needs to begin a national dialogue on just how open it should be to procuring military and space wares from abroad, and what the proper role of […]
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Business/Financial
Boeing Space Competing For $14 Billion Of Contracts; Backlog Of Existing Work $6 Billion To $7 Billion; Boeing Consulting Lawmakers On GOES-R Funding
The Boeing Co. [BA] currently is competing for about $14 billion worth of additional satellite/space-related business, an area that already generates $3.2 billion of annual revenues, according to Craig Cooning, […]
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International
Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk To Trouble-Shoot Soyuz Spacecraft, Removing Suspect Pyro Bolt
Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, the International Space Station commander, and Oleg Kononenko, flight engineer, ventured outside the space station to remove an explosive bolt from their docked Soyuz space vehicle. The […]
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International
Could Adding Rockets Make International Space Station An Interplanetary Spaceship For Voyage To Mars?
Adding a propulsion system and navigation gear to the International Space Station (ISS) could turn the $156 billion orbiting laboratory complex into an interplanetary spaceship, a writer on space issues […]
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International
NASA, European Space Agency, Mull Cooperation On Programs, Technologies, For Missions To The Moon
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are joining to work on cooperative programs and technologies for a human encampment on the moon. That would involve, on the part of […]
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Business/Financial
Launches
Ariane 5 Lofts ProtoStar I And BADR-6 Satellites Into Orbit An Ariane 5 heavy lift rocket lifted off from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, South America, and carried two […]
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Business/Financial
SRA Acquires Software Developer Serving Space Customers
SRA International [SRX] yesterday said it has acquired Interface & Control Systems, Inc., (ICS), a small provider of consulting services and software products to the defense and civil space markets, […]
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Business/Financial
Airborne Laser $1 Billion Per-Plane Cost Can Be Cut By Moving Swiftly To Purchase A Fleet Of Planes
If Seven Planes Cost $7 Billion, That Is 9 Percent Of 9/11 Damage In New York City Alone; $50,000-70,000 Per Missile Hit By ABL A Fraction Of Interceptor Cost Will […]
