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| 08.25.2008 |
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Tests Completed On Key Part For J-2X Engine In Ares Rocket 
Engineers finished testing the workhorse gas generator in the J-2X engine, in the upper stage of the next-generation Ares I rocket, NASA announced. The Ares will loft the future U.S. space capsule, Orion, into orbit. Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center...
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Contracts
Lockheed Gains $357 Million Hellfire II Production Contract The Army gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $357 million deal to produce more Hellfire missiles, the company announced today. They will go to U.S. and allied forces, with delivery beginning in 2010...
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| 08.25.2008 |
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Launches
Space Shuttles For Hubble Mission, Standby, Unharmed By Storm; Shuttle Atlantis Still Set For Liftoff At 1:34 A.M. ET Oct. 8 Tropical Storm Fay, despite its drenching deluge that flooded Florida communities, caused no damage to Space Shuttle Atlantis and the...
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| 08.25.2008 |
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Ballistic Missile Defense Programs Comprise 10 Percent Of Lockheed Revenues
Sales of ballistic missile defense systems and components have grown to make up 10 percent of the revenues in Lockheed Martin [LMT], the largest defense contractor, a senior official said yesterday. "About 10 percent of our sales last year were in the...
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| 08.25.2008 |
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NASA Issues Request For Information On Lunar Communications
NASA issued a request for information, or RFI, for concepts concerning communications and navigation services that could be used on the moon. The space agency wishes to gauge interest and solicit ideas from private companies for systems that would support...
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| 08.25.2008 |
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Expendable Launch Vehicles Market Seen At $48 Billion In Next Decade
The global market for expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), or rockets, will see an upturn to total about $48 billion over the next decade, according to a new projection from Forecast International (FI) in Newtown, Conn. Makers of launch vehicles include The...
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Defense Costs To Outstrip Funds Available
The U.S. military procurement effort faces an immense disconnect between funding needs and available financing, complicated by new emerging threats such as the loss of sanctuary in space and the ability to assume that satellites and other assets are safe...
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| 08.25.2008 |
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Russian Cosmonaut Takes Pictures From Space Station Of War Zone In Georgia
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, while on the International Space Station, took pictures of the war zone in Georgia, where Russian troops invaded the nation and then only partially pulled back into Russia. The space station is supposed to be used only for...
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Russian Invasion Of Georgia Proves U.S. Need For Directed-Energy Weapons Against Missile, Air Threats
The United States needs to field laser weapons, including solid-state assets, now, not later, a new report states. Proof of the urgent need for directed-energy defenses have been provided by Russian forces invading Georgia that fired BM-21 and SS-21 rockets...
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| 08.25.2008 |
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NASA Devises Solution For Ares Rocket Thrust Oscillation Problem
NASA leaders announced a solution for an intense vibration, or thrust oscillation, in the Ares I rocket that will loft the next-generation U.S. space capsule Orion into orbit. The thrust oscillation will begin around 105 to 115 seconds after liftoff, and will...
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ATK Rocket Destroyed After Liftoff From Wallops Island
Rocket Veered Off Course; Range Safety Personnel Destroyed Rocket When It Reached Safety-Area Limit; Unconfirmed Report Civilian Saw Rocket Debris On Land NASA Hypersonic Experiments Were Aboard Failed Rocket, Representing $17 Million Loss When Rocket...
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Poland, United States, Sign European Missile Defense Agreement To Erect Shield
Rep. Franks Says Deal Resolves Concerns Of Congress; It Is Time To Fund European Defense Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski signed a deal for Poland to host missile interceptors as part of the European Missile...
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| 08.18.2008 |
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Multiple Kill Vehicle Propulsion Unit Passes Test
A key propulsion system component for the Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) payload passed a test, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. A post-test assessment showed that the divert thruster stem met performance requirements in a series of static...
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| 08.18.2008 |
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Boeing Begins New Satellite Assembly Process
The Boeing Co. [BA] is about to use a new method of assembling satellites that will shorten construction time. That so-called "pulse line" method, at a facility in El Segundo, Calif., will start with Air Force birds. The first satellites to be...
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| 08.18.2008 |
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Cassini Spacecraft Zips To Close Encounter With Saturnian Moon
The Cassini interplanetary traveler whizzed at 40,000 miles an hour relative speed past a moon of Saturn called Enceladus, skimming just 30 miles above the lunar surface, NASA announced. A signal from Cassini was picked up by the Deep Space Network station in...
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| 08.18.2008 |
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Contracts
NASA Cancels Lunar Spacesuit Contract Award To Oceaneering, After Exploration Systems & Technology Protest To GAO NASA canceled its $183.8 million contract award to Oceaneering International Inc. for lunar spacesuits, after a rival bidder, Exploration...
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| 08.18.2008 |
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Launches
U.S. Air Force Launches Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile The U.S. Air Force launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with three unarmed multiple independent reentry vehicles on a trajectory of 4,220 nautical miles to...
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Army Mobile Laser Beam Control System Passes Preliminary Review
The Army High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator beam control system passed its preliminary design review requirements, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced today. The laser would take out airborne threats including some missiles. Under a first phase...
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| 08.18.2008 |
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Beam Control Used In Advanced Tactical Laser Test
First Time Entire ATL System Is Tested: Boeing The entire Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) was tested for the first time, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. The ATL, mounted on its C-130H aircraft, completed the test on the ground at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M...
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| 08.18.2008 |
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Lockheed Martin Target Missiles Work Well, Company Reports
Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] has launched a dozen target missiles successfully since 2005, the company announced. The company did so under a targets and countermeasures contract with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Lockheed provides unarmed targets designed...
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