Space & Missile Defense Report
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SpacePratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Powers X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Launch
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne [UTX] Apr. 22 helped boost into orbit the U.S. military’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. “Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is pleased to provide power for the U.S. […]
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Space
Senators Prod MDA To Keep Hitting Sub-Par Contractors
By Emelie Rutherford A key lawmaker encouraged the Pentagon Apr. 20 to continue punishing companies for producing poor-quality missile-defense products, suggesting “warranties” be added to contracts to prevent the government […]
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Space
First Minotaur IV Launches
Orbital Sciences [ORB] Apr. 22 launched the first of its Minotaur IV rockets in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 (HTV-2), according to the […]
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Space
Boeing, Raytheon Fund First Test Firing of Their JAGM
By Geoff Fein Using their own internal research and development funds, Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] fired the first Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) during a test at White Sands Missile […]
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Space
DoD: New Missile Defense Plan To Protect Europe With ‘Proven’ Systems
By Marina Malenic The Obama administration plans to provide full missile defense coverage of Europe against an Iranian attack by 2018 using “proven” U.S. systems, top Defense Department officials said […]
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Space
Aerojet Completes Second Series of Vibration and Hot Fire Risk Reduction Engine Tests for NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle
Aerojet, a GenCorp [GY] company, successfully completed a second series of vibration and altitude hot-fire tests on its 160-pound thrust mono- propellant rocket engine planned for use on NASA’s Orion […]
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Space
Obama Revives Scaled-Down Orion Program For NASA
By Marina Malenic Pledging a “transformative agenda” for NASA, President Barack Obama said his new national space plan aims to send Americans to an asteroid and eventually to Mars in […]
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[April 26, 2010]
// PDF View- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Powers X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Launch
- Senators Prod MDA To Keep Hitting Sub-Par Contractors
- First Minotaur IV Launches
- Boeing, Raytheon Fund First Test Firing of Their JAGM
- DoD: New Missile Defense Plan To Protect Europe With ‘Proven’ Systems
- Aerojet Completes Second Series of Vibration and Hot Fire Risk Reduction Engine Tests for NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle
- Obama Revives Scaled-Down Orion Program For NASA
- DoD Gives Preview of New Obama Space Policy
- Quality Is Focus of Arianespace following Ariane 5’s launch postponement
- Advocacy Group Calls For Detailed U.S. Space Strategy
- Army Seeks Responses To JAGM Draft RFP
- Honeywell Develops SERDES Electronics Selected for International Space Station
- Lockheed Martin Delivers the 1,000th JAASM To Air Force
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Space
DoD Gives Preview of New Obama Space Policy
By Marina Malenic The Obama administration’s new space policy will emphasize cooperation with other space-faring nations as well as the creation of good “rules of the road” as technology evolves […]
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Space
Quality Is Focus of Arianespace following Ariane 5’s launch postponement
Arianespace has initiated a multi-phase effort to pinpoint and resolve the technical issue that postponed its initial Ariane 5 flight of 2010, as well as revalidate quality control procedures for […]