Month: July 2008

U.S. Sea-Based Missile Defense Required: U.S. Navy Officer Iran is gaining increased capability to launch an overwhelming ballistic missile attack that would overwhelm Israel, Vice Adm. James A. "Sandy" Winnefeld...

Israeli Action Against Iranian Nuclear Facilities Also Would Draw Less Protest Than U.S. Strike The condemnation-free silence following the Israeli air strike on a Syrian nuclear reactor shows that world...

Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, the International Space Station commander, and Oleg Kononenko, flight engineer, ventured outside the space station to remove an explosive bolt from their docked Soyuz space vehicle. The...

The United States needs to begin a national dialogue on just how open it should be to procuring military and space wares from abroad, and what the proper role of...

The Boeing Co. [BA] currently is competing for about $14 billion worth of additional satellite/space-related business, an area that already generates $3.2 billion of annual revenues, according to Craig Cooning,...

Adding a propulsion system and navigation gear to the International Space Station (ISS) could turn the $156 billion orbiting laboratory complex into an interplanetary spaceship, a writer on space issues...

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are joining to work on cooperative programs and technologies for a human encampment on the moon. That would involve, on the part of...

Ariane 5 Lofts ProtoStar I And BADR-6 Satellites Into Orbit An Ariane 5 heavy lift rocket lifted off from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, South America, and carried two...

Astrium Gains European Space Agency Contract For ISS Work The European Space Agency (ESA) transferred work on operating and using the European share of the International Space Station (ISS) to...

Testing is complete on the first of a dozen GPS IIF satellites, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Those environmental tests confirm mechanical integrity of the spacecraft. The program is on...