Space
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SpaceSpace Shuttle Discovery Docks With Space Station After Flawless Countdown; Ascent To Orbit Saw Few Chunks Of Foam Insulation; No Danger To Orbiter
Only Problem Is Shutdown In Backup Electronic Unit For Second Left Orbital Maneuvering System; Primary Unit Works, So No Loss Of Capability Faces Mission Space Shuttle Discovery docked this afternoon […]
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Homeland Security
Aegis Missile Defense Test Set For Thursday In Pacific
The Aegis ballistic missile defense system will be tested Thursday in the Pacific, with two interceptor missiles attempting to annihilate the short-range target missile in the terminal phase of its […]
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Business/FinancialNASA Seeks Ideas This Week For Lunar Surface Systems; Industry, Academia, Institutions Invited To Conference
NASA will release details of a broad agency announcement seeking ideas for buildings to be constructed on the moon, with those details being provided in a meeting in Washington, D.C., […]
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Homeland Security
Is Iran Moving Beyond Uranium Enrichment To Attempt Building Thermonuclear Bomb?
Iran is studying nuclear fusion, the technology of the hydrogen bomb (H-bomb), according to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency. The Iranian program was revealed by Sadat Hosseini, an Iranian […]
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Homeland Security
First THAAD Unit is Activated, Becomes An Army Battery
By Ann Roosevelt and Dave Ahearn The first Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) unit was activated, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. That Army unit is Alpha Battery, 4th […]
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Space
Critic: NASA Should Abandon Moon Missions, And Develop Means To Fend Off Killer Comets, Meteoroids Instead
NASA should drop plans to visit and establish an outpost on the moon, and instead should focus on something more practical: saving mankind from extinction by a killer comet or […]
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Space
Phoenix Mars Lander Gets Just What It Wanted: An Icy Reception; Lander Operates Robotic Arm
The Phoenix Mars robotic spacecraft, having survived a hair-raising arrival on the red planet, immediately struck gold, or rather ice. (Please see Space & Missile Defense Report, Monday, May 26, […]
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Homeland Security
Airborne Laser Missile Defense System Begins Activation Tests
The Airborne Laser (ABL) completed its first activation tests on the ground, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Those tests were conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., home of the […]
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Business/Financial
Launches
Ariane 5 Launch Postponed Again, After Glitch In Rocket A scheduled launch Friday of an Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Skynet 5C and the Turksat 3A satellites was canceled because […]
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Business/Financial
Contracts
Boeing Bids For Space Situational Awareness Contract The Boeing Co. [BA] submitted a bid for the Air Force Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness (SASSA) contract. The program, valued at approximately $30 […]