Space & Missile Defense Report
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SpaceHigh-Powered Laser Being Installed In 747 Plane; Illuminator Laser Passes Test
The high-powered missile-killing laser at the heart of the Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense system is being installed in its platform, a highly modified Boeing 747-400F, Northrop Grumman Corp. […]
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Space
TSAT Router Completes Tests
The Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] — Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) team was the first to successfully complete the last in a series of verification tests […]
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[October 15, 2007]
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- TSAT Router Completes Tests
- High-Powered Laser Being Installed In 747 Plane; Illuminator Laser Passes Test
- Raytheon Gains Army Missile Defense Contract
- Boeing Wins Contract For Advanced Sensor In Next-Generation Missile
- Electric Power Plants In Space: An Idea Whose Time Is Near
- Launch Schedule
- Launches
- Space Shuttle Discovery Heat Shielding Degraded; Long Flight Delay Possible
- Putin Hostile To Gates, Rice Over European Missile Defense Plan
- Global Space Industry Revenue Soared 18 Percent To $220 Billion Last Year
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CongressSenate Adds $1 Billion To $17.5 Billion NASA Funding
Bush Threatens Veto Of Spending Measure The Senate added $1 billion to the roughly $17.5 billion NASA portion of a funding bill for fiscal year 2008 that began a week […]
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Space
Obering Says $85 Million Cut Won’t Severely Damage European BMD Program
Moves in Congress to cut $85 million in funding won’t greatly delay a planned Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) program that would be installed in Europe, Lt. Gen. Henry “Trey” […]
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Space
NASA Finds Weight Savings With Fewer Backup Systems In Next Spaceship
NASA is shaving weight on the next-generation U.S. spaceship, the Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV), by cutting back on backup systems, according to Skip Hatfield, project manager for the CEV […]
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Space
Launch Schedule
2007 Oct. 23 + STS-120 STS-120 will be the twenty-third mission to the International Space Station and will deliver the U.S. Node 2 Harmony module expanding the space station’s capability […]