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| 12.01.2008 |
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Year in Review: 2008 Events Set Stage for 2009 
Blog Special To comment on this article, visit Mark Holme’s blog at www.SatelliteToday.com/blog/?p=90 While the satellite sector generally remains in good health, a financial crisis that has cast a huge shadow over the globe also threatens the necessary...
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| 11.19.2008 |
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CPI Receives Military Communications Systems Contract
[Satellite Today 11-19-08] Communications & Power Industries Inc. (CPI) has been awarded a $1.4 million contract to design, develop and test Ka-band traveling wave tubes and amplifiers for the U.S. Air Force, CPI...
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| 11.18.2008 |
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Raytheon to Restore GBS Bandwidth Over Atlantic
[Satellite Today 11-18-08] Raytheon Co. has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency to restore the available bandwidth of the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) satellite communications system over the Atlantic Ocean to support...
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| 11.18.2008 |
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ND SatCom Unveils New Military Terminal
[Satellite Today 11-18-08] ND SatCom has unveiled a full-featured, trailer-mounted, military tactical terminal, the company announced Nov. 18. The MTT2450 terminal is HMMWV-towable and supports...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Third Instrument Delivered For NPOESS
The third of five sensors has been delivered to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced today. That science instrument will monitor ozone from space with higher fidelity than...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Boeing Software Cuts Risk For TSAT
A new software has demonstrated it can support the space and ground segments of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT), The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. This demonstration is one of three being conducted by Boeing and partner Raytheon Co...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Analyst: U.S Should Plan to Defend Space Assets
The United States should erect defenses against anti-satellite attacks, rather than merely attempting to deter assaults, according to an analyst. Deterrence may well not work, stated Robert Butterworth, president of Aries Analytics, Inc., an Alexandria, Va....
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Navy Seeks Harpoon, JSOW Upgrades
By Geoff Fein The Navy is currently not looking to add a maritime variant of the Air Force Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) to its weapons inventory, relying instead on planned upgrades to its existing Harpoon and Joint Stand Off Weapon (JSOW) to...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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KEI Passes First-Stage Motor Static Fire Test
A Versatile KEI Could Be New Interceptor For Navy Ships, Briefers Say Briefers Have No Word That KEI Funding To Be Cut Under Obama The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) first stage motor passed a static-fire test last week, officials reported. That leaves just...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Construction Advances At Iranian Heavy Water Reactor
Iran is moving ahead solidly with construction of a little-noticed heavy water reactor, a new study by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) discloses. If Iran can succeed in obtaining some smuggled components for the facility, it can be...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Study: No Gigantic Defense Spending Cuts Under Obama Administration
But Missile Defense Generally, And The Airborne Laser Especially, Will Face Close Obama Scrutiny While some military analysts have voiced concerns that President-elect Obama will slash defense spending deeply when he takes office, a new study says that may...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Future of TSAT Uncertain In Obama Administration
Chances are that funding may be cut for the Transformational Satellite Program, or TSAT, along with some other defense programs that may go under the knife in the impending administration of President-elect Obama, a report asserts. The report dated last week...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Chinese Military: Aircraft Carrier Won't Project Power Across Globe
A senior Chinese military officer said if China acquires an aircraft carrier or two, it will merely be to protect the Chinese homeland, not to project power across the globe, according to news reports. U.S. Department of Defense leaders already are demanding...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Medvedev, Sarkozy, Tone Down European Missile Defense Talk at G-20 Summit
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, coming to the United States for a Group of 20 Nations summit confronting economic issues, backed off from their prior harsh comments about the planned European Missile Defense (EMD)...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Would Devastate U.S.
A rogue state or terrorists could launch an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States that would kill more Americans than a nuclear strike on a major city, but an EMP attack on the homeland could be defeated with a missile defense system, a...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Tauscher: Missile Defense Shield Doesn't Deter Rogue Nations From Developing Weapons
U.S. Nuclear Weapons May No Longer Provide Credible Deterrence, Tauscher Says, Urging Nukes Reduction Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), whose subcommittee oversees U.S. missile defense efforts, today questioned the value of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Obering Steps Down From Missile Defense Agency
General Warns That Delaying Missile Defense Such As In Europe Would 'Severely Hurt' Ability To Defend United States, Allies Against Enemies U.S.-European Missile Defense Scheduled To Be Operational By 2013, Just Before Iran To Have Ability To Strike U.S...
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| 11.17.2008 |
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Griffin Would Remain NASA Administrator If Obama Asked
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said he would be "happy" to remain in his post if President-elect Obama asked, but Griffin doesn't expect that request from the newly-elected leader, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Griffin made his remarks in...
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| 11.14.2008 |
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Raytheon Submits Proposal for Air Force GBS Transition Contract
[Satellite Today 11-14-08] A team led by Raytheon has submitted its proposal for the U.S. Air Force Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Satellite Broadcast Manager Defense Enterprise Computing Center transition contract...
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| 11.13.2008 |
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DataPath Receives Satcom Order for U.S. Army Operations in Iraq
[Satellite Today 11-13-08] DataPath Inc. has been awarded a delivery order to manufacture and deploy a satellite communications on-the-move solution for U.S. Army forces in Iraq, Datapath announced Nov. 13...
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