Space
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Business/FinancialGEO-1 Satellite For SBIRS System Passes Milestone On Way To Launch Set For Sometime Late Next Year
Satellite To Provide New Missile-Launch Warning As China, Iran, North Korea, Increase Missile Capabilities The GEO-1 satellite in the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) system passed a comprehensive baseline integrated test […]
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Business/Financial
Moog Acquires Engineering Firm
Moog [MOG.A] on Friday said it has acquired CSA Engineering, Inc., a small engineering firm that specializes in the design and supply of systems for vibration suppression, precision motion control […]
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Business/Financial
Polar Satellite Dies After A Dozen Years In Operation
The Polar satellite that studied radiation and particles from the sun above the Earth died. In operation for a dozen years, the satellite was part of the NASA Global Geospace […]
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SpaceDemocrats On House Panel Assail Obering, Missile Defense; Chairman Sees More Hearings, Plus A Report, Possible
Ranking Republican Says Anti-BMD Hearing ‘A Fraud’ Obering Asks, If An Enemy Launches A Missile From An Unmarked Ship, How Could U.S. Forces Retaliate? Democratic legislators lacerated and lambasted the […]
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InternationalRussian Soyuz Woes May Have Substantial Repercussions: Relying On U.S. Space Shuttles, Leaving Space Station Unmanned, Among Possibilities; But First, NASA Awaits Russian Findings
NASA Sees Russian Review Panel Working Well To Discover Cause Of Soyuz Spaceship Plunging Descent, Separation Failure; Korean, Russian Suffer Back Injuries In Hard Soyuz Landing Glitches plaguing two consecutive […]
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Space
Pentagon Needs To Do More On Operationally Responsive Space, GAO Finds
The Department of Defense (DoD), while making progress in its operationally responsive space (ORS) programs over the past two years, needs to take additional steps to ensure that ORS needs […]
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Air ForceLockheed Martin Teams With Former Rival Northrop Grumman For GPS OCX Phase B Contract
Lockheed Martin [LMT] has joined a team lead by Northrop Grumman [NOC] to compete for a follow-on Air Force contract for mission enterprise control support for Global Positioning System (GPS) […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Gives SpaceX A Rocket Launch Contract Worth Up To $1 Billion, Depending On Orders
Gerstenmaier Sees High Interest, Many Bids For NASA Space Transport Vehicle Work To Be Awarded In June; Competition May Be Intense NASA Moving To Fill Void Created By Shuttles Retiring; […]
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CongressGerman Ambassador Sees Iranian Missiles, Nuclear Program As Posing ‘Great Danger’
German Envoy Says U.S. Leaders Gates, Rice, ‘Brilliant’ In Handling Russian Objection To Installing Missile Defense System In Europe If ongoing Iranian production of nuclear materials leads to Iran wielding […]
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Congress
Clinton Stands By Israel, Stands Up To Iran And Its Missiles; She Warns Iran Don’t Launch Nuclear Attack On Israel, Or United States Will Retaliate, Obliterate
Obama Criticizes Clinton For Issuing Warning, Sees ‘Saber Rattling’ Iran must not be so reckless as to launch a nuclear attack on Israel, because the United States would retaliate and […]