Month: October 2006

North Korea announced it detonated a nuclear weapon, drawing strong protest from the United States, with President Bush vowing “an immediate response by the United Nations Security Council.” But he...

A NASA scientist won the Nobel Prize for physics, NASA announced. The Nobel Prize Committee chose NASA scientist and Goddard Fellow John C. Mather to receive the 2006 prize. Mather...

The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] won unanimous 5-0 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) permission to form a joint space launch alliance, Boeing, Lockheed and the FTC announced....

Some nations might be concerned that any conventional-warhead missile fired from a U.S. Navy submarine might actually be a nuclear device that could blind radars in those nations, analysts said....

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) received a NASA contract worth up to $750 million, NASA announced. The five-year contract with APL, of Laurel, Md., with the possibility of...

NASA selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc. of Lanham, Md., to provide science, technology and research support services to the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The cost plus...

The Stennis Space Center marked the passing of an era, an end of one long story in the U.S. space program and anticipation of a new chapter. At the largest...

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R series (GOES-R), which already has seen its price tag soar more than $5 billion, stands in danger of seeing further cost increases, missed schedules and...

Two scientists who helped create the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct. 3....

Eagle Broadband Inc.’s new super headend facility at Newcom International’s Florida teleport is operational, Eagle announced Oct. 3. The headend gives Eagle the ability to collect and digitize TV content...