Government/Military

Barak-1 interceptors shot down four out of four target missiles in live fire tests involving three ships from two navies, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced. The Barak-1s operated on ships in the Israeli Navy and a foreign naval customer. Tests included use of fire control radars and three different surveillance radars produced by the IAI...

NASA and South Korea have forged a deal to cooperate on civil space and aeronautics activities. The agreement doesn’t detail specific space programs they will conduct jointly, but rather is an agreement to negotiate those arrangements. Michael F. O’Brien, NASA assistant administrator for external relations, and Munki Lee, the South Korean Ministry of Education, Science...

Space Shuttle Endeavour is cleared to launch at 7:55 p.m. ET Nov. 14 from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on its STS-126 Mission to the International Space Station, top NASA leaders announced. After an hours-long flight readiness review, Bill Gerstenmaier, associate NASA administrator for space operations, said, "The vehicle is ready." While there is...

Odyssey Moon Ventures LLC will partner with NASA to help develop a robotic lunar lander, the company announced. The partnership was established through a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement signed with Ames Research Center. Under the agreement, NASA will provide technical data and engineering support to Odyssey Moon Ventures to support its efforts to develop its...

Hubble Space Telescope Fix Works, As Camera Captures Aftermath Of Two Galaxies Colliding Space Shuttle Atlantis will be delayed 6.5 months, at least, before it can launch on its mission to repair and refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope, meaning that the launch that was planned for last month, and then bumped to February, now will...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has used figures that may suggest a new type of nuclear weapons detectors is more reliable than warranted, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) stated in a report to Congress. To be sure, the GAO report didn’t find that screening detectors installed at shipping ports are unable to detect nuclear...

By Marina Malenic Expressing concern that the Air Force is "playing games" with important military satellite acquisitions, John Young — undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics — said a reorganization of management for Department of Defense space programs may be necessary. The undersecretary of the Air Force is the Pentagon executive agent for...

A hefty, unneeded component that astronaut Clay Anderson last year heaved off the International Space Station now is coming down to Earth, with reentry and an impact area unknown. The object, an ammonia-filled cooling unit, is about the size of a refrigerator. But it weighs 1,400 pounds on Earth, almost 10 times more than a...

On Mercury, True North Is Very Close To Magnetic North A U.S. spaceship early this month raced just 125 miles above the planet closest to the sun, Mercury, and came away with a treasure trove of 1,200 pictures. The fleet-footed photographer is the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft, or MESSENGER, spacecraft. It...

The Phoenix Mars Lander is weakening in the bitterly cold northern arctic winter on Mars and soon will freeze to death, but not before achieving a stellar success as a geologist. A NASA source said attempts to communicate with Phoenix have continued, but whether Phoenix can perform any more useful work is problematical. Experts knew...