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| 10.01.2009 |
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Hughes Network Systems: Global Leader in Broadband Satellite Services and Networks
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in providing broadband satellite networks and services for large enterprises, governments, small businesses, and consumers. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, U.S.A., Hughes has shipped over 1.9...
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| 07.13.2009 |
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Briefs
The DoD appointed Regina Dugan as the 19th director of DARPA. Prior to this appointment, Dugan held several key positions in industry, most recently as president and chief executive officer of RedXDefense, LLC, which she co-founded in 2005, a company that...
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| 07.13.2009 |
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Kaminski, Lyles, Appointed To Defense Science Board
The Defense Department yesterday announced the appointments of Paul Kaminski as chairman of the Defense Science Board for a term effective immediately through Dec. 31, 2011, and retired Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles as vice chairman for a term effective...
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| 07.13.2009 |
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Lockheed Martin Official Voices Optimism On Crucial Cruise Missile Test
Facing a series of do-or-die reliability tests later this summer, a Lockheed Martin [LMT] official expressed confidence in an Air Force cruise missile program that has come under increased scrutiny after a series of flight test failures. David Van Buren, the...
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| 07.13.2009 |
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U.S. Solid Rocket Motor Industry Capable But Needs Investment: Report
Suppliers and contractors in the United States are capable of meeting the nation's needs for solid rocket motors (SRM) but challenges remain, including the need for increased public and private investment and waning research, development and production...
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| 07.13.2009 |
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Missile Defense Testing, GMD Studies Sought In Senate Bill
The defense policy bill the Senate is expected to debate this month calls for the Pentagon to craft detailed plans for two much-debated aspects of the Ballistic Missile Defense System: its testing regimen and its ground-based missile interceptor sites. The...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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NASA Seeks Input On Cataloguing Documents Of Wernher Von Braun
NASA requested suggestions on how to organize documents from from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system. The space agency would welcome thoughts from the public, academia, and industry. Von Braun was the...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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Salt Provides Clues For NASA Cassini Mission
Salt may signal that an underground ocean lurks inside a moon circling Saturn, according to NASA. The Cassini spacecraft discovered sodium, or salt, for the first time in grains of ice from the outermost Saturnian ring, leading researchers to deduce that...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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Space Tracking And Surveillance System Satellite Delivered To Canaveral For Launch Prep
The first Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., for launch preparation, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. "This delivery is a significant milestone in the development of our...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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European Space Agency Plans Ground Station In Argentina
Making Another ESA Facility In South America, After Spaceport The European Space Agency (ESA) announced plans for a ground station to be built in South America, assuming negotiations are successful. The ESA station would be built in Malargue, Argentina, where...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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NASA Gives Wackenhut $1.2 Billion 10-Year Security Contract After Lawsuit
NASA gave Wackenhut Services Inc. a $1.2 billion contract to provide security services at NASA installations, after Wackenhut successfully sued the space agency when it earlier had awarded the contract to a rival firm, Coastal International Security. Further...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Launch Schedule
Updated -- June 26, 2009 - 7:15 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | * No Earlier Than (Tentative) |** To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 27 Mission: GOES-O Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta IV Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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GPS IIF Satellite Journeys Nationwide To Test Transit, Launch Site, Ground Control
A Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite called SV-2 took a transcontinental flight on a C-17 from California to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., but only for a visit, not for a launch into space. The navigation satellite instead will be used as...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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GOES-O Satellite Launched To Orbit Atop Delta IV Rocket
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket roared from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Saturday evening, to place a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, into orbit. Ironically, that liftoff of...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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Adm. Mullen Confident United States Can Shoot Down North Korean Missiles
North Korea May Launch Taepo Dong-2 Missile On Saturday, Perhaps Toward Hawaii: Reports U.S. missile defense systems very likely can demolish any missile that North Korea launches to hit U.S. territory, said Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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Minot Nukes Force Passes Inspection
Nuclear forces at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., passed inspections with the highest possible score. That's a reversal from the situation two years ago, when six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles were on-loaded to a plane and mistakenly flown to Barksdale Air...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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Schwartz Mulls Aircraft-Mounted Air Launched Hit-To-Kill Missile Defense Systems
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz is examining the feasibility of missile defense systems mounted on aircraft, such as strike fighters. Interest in the Air Launched Hit-to-Kill systems...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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Senate Appropriators Excoriate NPOESS, Voice 'Lack Of Confidence' In Program Management, But Provide Full Funding
Obama Administration Isn't Seizing Control Of NPOESS To Fix Problems, Lawmakers Say The Senate Appropriations Committee expressed exasperation with the long-troubled National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, but provided...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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Two NASA Lunar Spacecraft Operating Well; Poised For Moon-Mapping And Lunar-Crash Missions
Lunar Impacts Set For Oct. 9 Two NASA spacecraft are healthy and ramping up their systems, poised for pioneering lunar missions that will net key information for future manned U.S. explorations and settlements on the moon. One craft is the Lunar...
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| 06.29.2009 |
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Senate Defense Authorization Bill Leaves European Missile Defense Program With No Construction Funds, Chairman Levin Says
But Defense Measure Also Encourages Talks With Russians Over Possible Joint Radar The pending Senate defense authorization bill leaves the European Missile Defense (EMD) program with just $51 million for the next fiscal year, which critics of the measure say...
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