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Strategy Document Was Written Four Years Ago But Never Agreed To Or Released, GAO Reports A quickly-written watchdog-agency letter to key Senate lawmakers disclosed that a National Security Space Strategy...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will negotiate a sole-source contract for The Boeing Co. [BA] to continue leading the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program, according to an MDA notice and Boeing...

Counter-Manpads Asset Seen Able To Protect Each Passenger For $1 — Price Of Pop And Peanuts Northrop Hopes Airlines Install Guardian System On Planes For Far Less Than $4 Billion...

NASA Science Chief Stern To Be Replaced By Edward Weiler NASA officials were prepared to curtail movements of Mars Rover Opportunity and to shut down and hibernate Rover Spirit to...

Funding for ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs will slump, a BMD critic predicted, likening support for missile defense to the home-prices bubble and the sub-prime home mortgage industry that just...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] The fourth SAR-Lupe satellite was placed into orbit March 27 by a Russian Cosmos-3M rocket, the German Ministry of Defence announced.     This is the fourth...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] ICO North America Inc. has entered into an agreement with Jefferies Finance LLC for a $40 million working capital facility, ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Ltd. announced...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) conducted the first three-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium-to heavy-lift rocket, the company announced March 28.     The March 8...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] Eumetsat (the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) signed a collaboration agreement with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) to use satellite technology...

[Satellite Today – 3-28-08] Raytheon Co. has completed the system requirements review for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS Control Segment (OCX), Raytheon announced March 28.     In November, Raytheon...