Government/Military

Only Possibility Of Blocking Iranian Nukes Is That Israel Might Launch Military Strike European Missile Defense System Would Become Final Bulwark Against Nuclear Iran The United States has failed to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons, and the consequences of that failure will be ugly, according to John R. Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the...

Updated — December 4, 2008 – 4 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Dec. ** Mission: TacSat-3 Launch Vehicle: Orbital Sciences Minotaur Rocket Launch Site: Wallops Flight Facility – Goddard Space Flight Center Description: NASA will support the Air Force launch of the...

The Iranian navy launched a medium-range "sea-to-sea" missile during naval exercises in the Sea of Oman, according to Iranian state radio. That Nasr-2 (Victory-2) weapon was launched from a battleship that was plying waters near the Iranian border with Pakistan. The naval exercises involved about 60 ships, according to the report.

[Satellite News 12-08-08] Astrium Services CEO Eric Béranger believes the company’s focus on the institutional market means it is less likely to be impacted by the credit crunch due to the services the company provides.     “We are addressing government and institutional customers, whose budgets have been set at least for 2009,” he told Satellite...

[Satellite Today 12-08-08] Raytheon Co., Northrop Grumman Corp. and the U.S. National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System’s (NPOESS) integrated program office completed another phase of compatibility testing for the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP), the organizations announced Dec. 5.     The compatibility testing exercise, led by NASA, was the first opportunity to exercise the two NPOESS-provided...

[Satellite Today 12-08-08] Norsat International Inc. reported increased revenues in its 2008 third quarter 2008 of $4.9 million, up from $3.8 million in 2007, Norsat announced Dec. 6. Net earnings increased to $700,000, up from $200,000 in 2007.     The company attributed the growth to a $5.5 million U.S. Department of Defense satellite systems contract,...

With the federal government sitting back idly while the Detroit Big Three auto industry runs out of money, will Washington next permit the U.S. aerospace industry to dwindle and decay? That question was asked by Loren B. Thompson, chief operating office of The Lexington Institute, a think tank near the Pentagon focusing on defense and...

Missile Defense System Needed Urgently Iran will have an operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "in a couple of years," an analyst predicted, while noting that Iran also is working toward building a nuclear weapon. "Iran is working to expand its capability so it can hit the United States" with "a true ballistic missile," said Ilan...

A key member of Congress said that an imminent move by Iran to possess nuclear weapons poses "increasing danger" to the United States, but didn’t mention deploying missile defense systems to counter that danger. Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee, was asked by Space & Missile Defense...

There is more than a 50 percent chance that an attack with a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) will be perpetrated by the end of 2013, a threat emanating from terrorists and rogue states, a 160-page commission report disclosed. Worse, the threat is expanding faster than U.S. capabilities to counter it, the report warned. The...