Space
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SpaceJumpstart Effort To Launch In June
If the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket Flight 003 mission launches this June, as scheduled, it will carry a so-called operationally responsive space payload as part of the "Jumpstart" effort, the […]
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Business/FinancialATK’s Bid For MDA’s Space And Information Assets Edges Forward
Shareholders for Canada’s MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) yesterday overwhelmingly approved the sale of the company’s Information Systems and Geospatial Services business to Alliant Techsystems [ATK], keeping the deal […]
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SpaceUnited States, Poland Outline Missile Defense Pact, But No Final Deal Set
By Dave Ahearn The United States and Poland yesterday reached an outline of an agreement to have a U.S. ballistic missile defense system installed in Europe, and for Washington in […]
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CongressKyl Blasts Obama’s Position On Missile Defense
By Jen DiMascio In a Capitol Hill speech yesterday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), a strong advocate of missile defense, blasted past statements by presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on […]
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SpaceAstronaut Sees Shuttle As Safer With Fixes, But Says Orion-Ares To Be Safer Yet
Establishing Camp On Moon Wise Before Moving On To Mars, Foreman Says Space shuttles have become far safer with engineering changes made in response to the tragic loss of Space […]
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SpaceGriffin Sees Shortage Of Plutonium For Spacecraft
NASA is running out of plutonium to use for powering spacecraft on deep space missions, far from the rays of the sun, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said. Very little of […]
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Business/FinancialContracts
Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, Orbital Get DARPA Contracts For Mini-Satellites; Splitting One Satellite Into Parts Would Bolster Survivability Against Anti-Satellite Attacks, And Against Damage Caused By Space Debris Demonstration Of ‘Fractionated’ […]
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CongressIn The News
Brass Don’t Say As Senators Ask Who Built Failed Satellite Whodunit? Senators asked at a hearing which company or firms built that U.S. intelligence satellite that failed completely just after […]