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| 09.22.2008 |
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Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope Completes On-Orbit Checkout 
The Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope built for NASA completed its on-orbit checkout, General Dynamics Corp. [GD] announced. The company completed the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) of the telescope. Fermi...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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Electronic Units Integrated Into AEHF Satellite
Electronic units of the payload module have been integrated into the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. Northrop is under contract to provide three communications payloads...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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GeoEye Resolves Nasdaq Compliance Problem
GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY] resolved compliance problems with the Nasdaq stock exchange, the company announced. Filing a restatement of its past financial reports, and 10Q reports filed with the...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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NASA, Air Force, Seek Industry And University Partners To Establish Hypersonic Centers
NASA and the Air Force are looking for university and industry partners to advance hypersonic research. The NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington and the Air Force Research Laboratory's Office of Science Research at Wright-Patterson Air...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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Contracts
NASA Extends Information Technology Contract For $214.4 Million NASA extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] of San Diego. This extension permits completion of an...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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Launches
Chinese Rocket Rolled Out To Launch Pad, As Taikonauts Arrive For Manned Mission Chinese space workers finished rolling out the Long-March II-F rocket topped by a spaceship, moving the system onto the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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General Cool To Expanding Missile Defense System To Protect Space Assets From Attack
The United States shouldn't leap to expand its missile defense system to protect U.S. military and civilian space assets from enemy attack, Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the Air Force Space Command, said. Rather, Kehler said, the United States should...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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Senate Approves Amendment Providing $89 Million For Ballistic Missile Defense AN/TPY-2 Radar
Provision Doesn't Specify Which Nation Is Site The Senate voted out a defense authorization bill for the soon-to-begin fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, approving an amendment that would provide $89 million for activation and deployment of an AN/TPY...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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Endeavour Arrives At Launch Pad 39B To Act As Life Raft For Atlantis During Hubble Space Telescope Repair Mission
Barring Problems, Atlantis Lifts Off Oct. 10, Endeavour Slated For Nov. 12 Blast-Off After Atlantis, Endeavour Go Aloft, Only Nine Shuttle Missions To Launch Before Shuttle Fleet Retires In 2010 Space Shuttle Endeavour arrived at Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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Europeans Charting Course To Be Independent Of United States In Both Civil, Military Space
The Europeans wish to be independent of the United States in space, including a capacity to make their own satellites and launchers. As the United States falls on hard times, both economically/financially and in the future of its space program, the Europeans...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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North Korea Test-Fires ICBM Engine; Russia Launches Missile Said To Defeat U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Shield
Report Says Missile Threat Worsens, Outlines Need For American BMD System Russia successfully launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that Moscow claims can defeat U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems, North Korea test- fired an...
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| 09.15.2008 |
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NASA Increases Use Of Temporary Employees, GAO Report Finds
NASA has increased its use of temporary hirings, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress stated. Since NASA was given the power to appoint employees to positions for limited terms of...
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| 09.15.2008 |
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Launches
Progress Docking At Space Station Delayed As Hurricane Ike Closes Johnson Russia launched a Progress freighter spaceship as scheduled, but then found it couldn't dock the Progress with the International Space Station because Hurricane Ike forced NASA to close...
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Air Force Wants Expedited Recertification of AEHF Satellite System
The Air Force has asked the Department of Defense (DOD) expedite the review process triggered by massive cost growth of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite communications system so that the service may accurately budget the project...
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| 09.15.2008 |
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Terrorists Still Seeking Weapons Such As Nuclear Devices
A new report finds that seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States still hasn't mounted an effective effort to prevent the spread of nuclear and other catastrophic weapons to terrorists attempting to acquire them. Some recommendations the 9/11...
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| 09.15.2008 |
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Russia Develops Reusable Rocket Engines Cutting Launch Costs, Lifting 1.5 To 30 Tons
Energomash Science and Production Association has developed a rocket engine with reusable liquid propellant engines that can...
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Tests Completed On Separation Motor For Ares I
Engineers finished testing a small solid rocket motor that will help to separate the second stage of the next-generation Ares I rocket from the first stage, NASA announced. That small rocket also will help ensure that fuel in the second stage settles usefully...
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| 09.15.2008 |
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North Korea Threatens To Rebuild Nuclear Weapons Reactor
New North Korean Missile Launching Facility Taking Shape North Korea, which with great fanfare demolished a portion of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, now is threatening to rebuild the facility, claiming that other...
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| 09.15.2008 |
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Russia Vows Anew To Demolish Any U.S.-European Missile Defense System
Russia Lambasted For Continued Occupation Of Georgian Provinces; Asian Nations Provide $40 Million Low-Interest Loan To Georgia But Some U.S. Lawmakers Still Are Cool To Providing Funds Required To Build Missile Shield In Poland, Czech Republic As Polish...
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China Poised For Manned Space Mission As Early As Next Week
Chinese Space Advances Come As NASA Faces Serious Woes China is wrapping up preparations for liftoff as early as next week of its third manned space flight that will include its first taikonaut spacewalk, a portrait of progress that contrasts markedly with...
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