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Honeywell Gyroscopes Boost Satellite Agility 
Honeywell [HON] will provide the Air Force Research Laboratory with a mini momentum control system for space missions. The system will include four control momentum gyroscopes, space hardened electronics, a vibration isolation system, and a plug-and-play...
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United Launch Alliance To Lay Off Hundreds
United Launch Alliance plans to lay off hundreds of workers next year, the Denver Business Journal reported...
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Czech Republic Joins ESA
The Czech Republic joined the European Space Agency, ESA announced. That makes 18 nations holding membership in the...
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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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Boeing Adds Capabilities To Benefit GPS IIF System
The Boeing Co. [BA] will improve capabilities for technology in the Air Force Operational Control Segment (OCS) satellite ground-control system. That will permitthe system to operate the new Boeing-built Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites in addition to...
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GMD System Pumps $246 Million Into Alaskan Economy in 2007
The Boeing Co. [BA], through its work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, added more than $246 million to the Alaska economy last year, Boeing announced. GMD includes interceptors installed in ground silos in Alaska and California. That...
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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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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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Contracts
Raytheon Gains $54 Million Multiple Kill Vehicle Contract The Missile Defense Agency gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $54 million contract to continue design and development of a Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV-R). That MKV will counter complex ballistic missile threats...
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Kazakh Cosmonaut May Fly To Space Station Next Year
Kazakhstan will send a cosmonaut to the International Space Station a year or so from now, the Kazakh National Space Agency announced. But...
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NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
Updated -- November 14, 2008 - 9:10 p.m. EST 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...
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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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Sea Launch Receives SICRAL 1B Satellite For Launch In January
Sea Launch took delivery of the SICRAL 1B communications satellite at the payload processing facility at the Sea Launch home port in the Port of Long Beach. With additional arrivals this month of associated hardware and personnel, Sea Launch is prepared to...
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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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Endeavour Docks With International Space Station After Flawless Launch
Space Shuttle Endeavour thundered to the heavens and docked with the International Space Station to begin a major makeover of the orbiting laboratory. While the blazing, on-time launch at 7:55 p.m. ET Friday was a nighttime liftoff, it nonetheless was a lit...
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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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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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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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NASA Symposium Gives Small Firms Tips On How To Become Subcontractors
Leaders of small businesses received extensive tips from NASA prime-contractor officials on how to become subcontractors, during a two-day symposium at a Washington hotel. The tips included common-sense guidance, such as jumping to answer the phone if a prime...
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Hardware Arrives For Ares 1-X Test Flight
A major piece of hardware for the Ares 1-X rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center last week. Ares, the rocket that someday will power Orion space capsule flights, is being developed by several contractors. Ares 1-X will launch in a test set for July. As for...
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