Space
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SpaceAEHF 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 […]
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Space
NASA Robotic Vehicles Zip Around Moon-Like Landscape On Earth
Unmanned vehicles this month zipped around a lunar-style landscape, but it was on Earth, where they had to fight 16 times the force of gravity that they would encounter on […]
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Homeland Security
Rubin Proposes Major Improvement For European Missile Defense; Would Counter Missiles From India Through Northern Africa
A major improvement could be made in the proposed European Missile Defense (EMD) system that the United States wishes to install to protect Europe from Iranian missile attacks, by increasing […]
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Space
‘Clean’ Shuttle Discovery Lands At Kennedy Space Center; No Shuttle Flights Slated For Almost Four Months
NASA Discusses Possible Manned Commercial Flights To Transport Crew To International Space Station Talks Commence On International Participation In U.S. Orion-Ares Missions To Moon, And Japan Also Hopes For Its […]
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Space
Bush, Brown, Sarkozy Hit Iranian Rejection Of No-Nuclear-Weapons Deal; Brown Says New Sanctions Being Imposed On Intractable Iran; Iran Hungers For Nukes, Bush Says; Sarkozy Terms That ‘Unacceptable’
President Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy unanimously condemned Iran for contemptuously rejecting incentives for it to surrender nuclear-weapons ambitions, saying that a nuclear-armed Iran […]
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Space
A.Q. Kahn Network Held Plans For Compact Nuclear Weapon That Easily Could Fit On Ballistic Missiles, Report Says
Authorities Don’t Know Whether Iran, North Korea Given Plans The A.Q. Kahn smuggling ring also held plans showing how to make compact nuclear weapons, precisely what rogue states such as […]
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Space
Campbell Sees North Korea, Iran Racing For Nuclear-Tipped ICBMs
A clear trend is emerging that rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea are in “a sprint, not a marathon,” racing to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could […]
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Homeland Security
Campbell Suggests Missile Defense Shield Needs Centralized Planning, Coordination
But Combatant Commanders Would Retain Power To Execute Missile Kills In Their Regions Allied Nations Also Should Be Linked To BMD The multi-layered global ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield should […]
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Space
Analyst: Navy Should Consider Hardware To Counter Wider Range Of Enemy Missiles, Including ICBMs
Kinetic Energy Interceptors On Subs, CG(X) Cruiser? The Navy should consider installing more types of ballistic missile defense systems on its ships, to counter the rising variety of enemy missiles, […]