Government/Military

[Satellite Today 11-04-08] United Space Alliance, a space operations provider, has been awarded a three-year, $206.5 million contract from NASA, United Space Alliance announced Nov. 4.     The provider said it will be working on NASA’s integrated mission operations contract, and could potentially have up to 700 employees working on the contract. Under the contract,...

View That Congress Will Slash Or Kill Spaceship Program Not Borne Out By Strong Budgetary Support, Officials Say NASA Examining Ways To Begin Manned Orion-Ares Flights Sooner The next-generation Ares spaceship rocket won’t be an unsafe lifter, and won’t easily be blown sideways into its launch tower, NASA leaders said. While recent news reports have...

United States Needs Cheap, Quickly Orbited Satellites To Replace Those Lost In Anti-Satellite Attacks: Gates The leader of the largest war-making force on the planet told members of an august peace group that weakness doesn’t prevent war, and that the best bar to conflict lies in strength and a capability sufficient to deter aggression. That...

Updated — October 30, 2008 – 6:30 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Nov. 14 Mission: STS-126 Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center – Launch Pad 39A Launch Time: 7:55 p.m. EST Landing Date: Nov. 29 Landing Site: Kennedy...

[Satellite Today 11-03-08] DigitalGlobe and Navteq have formed a partnership aimed at providing better support to software developers using Navteq map data who want to include high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery from DigitalGlobe in their applications, DigitalGlobe announced Nov. 3.      As part of the agreement, DigitalGlobe will provide developers access to sample imagery free...

The score was one hit, one miss, in an Aegis system ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the Pacific where the Navy for the first time ran the BMD test itself, without oversight by the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy Third Fleet announced. That 50-50 result comes as some Democrats in Congress are poised once...

McCain In 2004 Sponsored Bill Containing Retirement Of Shuttle As voters prepare to pick the next president in the election tomorrow, a key question regardless of who wins is what the next president will do about the gaping gap in the U.S. space program, where NASA for half a decade won’t be able to transport...

Israel must work with the United States to advance missile defense capabilities, soon, before Iran develops nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems that could annihilate Israel, the U.S.-based Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) stated. Terming Israel "a nation under threat," MDAA chairman and founder Riki Ellison said Israel must be applauded for its multi-layered ballistic...

The United States has deployed an X-band radar and 120 personnel to operate it in Israel, in the Negev Desert, to detect incoming enemy missiles such as the Iranian Shahab-3, according to international media reports. That X-band radar would be linked into both Israeli and U.S. ballistic missile defense radar systems. Americans also plan to...

Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek begged off a scheduled White House visit with President Bush, because Topolanek has to deal with political problems arising from a regional election, and he needs to push the Czech Parliament to endorse the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) radar to be installed on Czech territory. Topolanek had planned to...