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Space

NASA Chooses Orbital Sciences For $170 Million Seed Money To Develop Space Transit Service

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Thursday, February 21st, 2008

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Orbital, With Solid Cashflow, To Finance Major Portion of Spacecraft Development Cost Commercial Craft Would Help Fill Void Left By Space Shuttle Retirement In 2010 NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] of Dulles, Va., as the winner of a competition to receive up to $170 million in federal seed money, to spur Orbital and its team of subcontractors to develop a private Cygnus space cargo vehicle to help supply the International Space Station (ISS). That agreement includes demonstrating the spacecraft…

Congress

Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to advance consideration of the chamber’s $1.14 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). The procedural vote was 46-50, failing to reach […]

Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) raised concerns at a hearing on Tuesday about the majority of funds in the $153 billion first reconciliation bill being unobligated thus […]

Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]

Congress

House Heads For Recess Without Moving On NDAA After Procedural Vote Fails

The House will leave for the Fourth of July recess without moving forward on its $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with a procedural vote to […]