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Business/Financial

SpaceX Finally Launches Falcon 1, Rocket Soars To Orbit On Fourth Try

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Monday, September 29th, 2008

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Launch Is A Win For Both SpaceX And NASA, Which Needs Commercial Transport Capabilities To Space Station Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, yesterday finally attained success in launching a Falcon 1 rocket that soared into space and achieved Earth orbit. This is a major victory for the company after three failed attempts, but it also is a major win for NASA, which supplied seed/incentive money to SpaceX, because beginning with the space shuttle fleet retirement in 2010, NASA for…

Senators Push Navy Against Single Destroyer Request In FY ’27

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the two senators from Maine last week pushed back on Navy officials for only requesting one Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG-51) […]

Navy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition

The Navy told lawmakers this week it found a dry dock at HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard it thinks can use for final assembly of the new Trump-class battleship […]

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]