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[Satellite News 07-22-08] For years, economists and politicians have racked the brains of think tanks to develop a solution to revive the lackluster industrial output of the Rust Belt, a […]

The Phoenix Mars Lander is performing well, with its solar arrays generating more electricity than expected so that Phoenix hours of operation each day can be extended, Lockheed Martin Corp. […]

A university professor has been named president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank in Washington that focuses on defense and other issues. Arthur C. Brooks, the […]

Rob Strain, head of the space department at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, will become the new Goddard Space Flight Center director, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced. Strain […]

ATK, Lockheed, Northrop Join To Pursue Multi-Role Weapons Contracts Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK], Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] and Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced they signed a teaming agreement to jointly […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] completed preliminary design of a rugged beam control system for the Army High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD) program, a truck-mounted asset that counters rocket, […]

Sea Launch Boosts EchoStar XI Satellite To Orbit Sea Launch, the mobile seagoing launch platform, saw a Zenit-3SL rocket blast off to deliver the EchoStar XI broadcast satellite into orbit, […]

The concept of operationally responsive space (ORS) is widely endorsed, but there are differences between the combatant commanders and the intelligence/space community as to just what ORS should be, according […]

The ABL has come a long way in its years of development, Obering told journalists at a Pentagon press briefing. "There’s been so much work done there in that" aircraft, […]

Boeing 747 Does Well In ABL Work; MDA Not Seeking Different Plane Some friendly nations have shown interest in acquiring the U.S. Airborne Laser (ABL) system to defend themselves from […]

New evidence shows that Mars once had immense quantities of water, the vital and indispensable substance of life requisite for any sustained human settlement of the red planet. Water is […]

The space program leaders also reviewed what spaceships likely will be availablel to continue transporting crew and cargo to the space station after the space shuttle fleet retires in two […]

Opposition To Early International Space Station Retirement Five global space-program leaders voiced concern that the International Space Station (ISS) should be operational through the end of the next decade at […]

Flaws persist in masterminding a multi-program, $2.8 billion yearly anti-smuggling detection system to block rogue nations and terrorists from mounting a nuclear attack on the United States, the Government Accountability […]

European Missile Defense System Urgently Needed Worrisome Threats Uttered By Iranian Leader Cited European Interceptor Design Not Risky, Won’t Involve Major Changes From Already-Proven Rocket Components: Obering There is no […]

Analyst: U.S. Satellites Likely To Be Hit In A Hot War The United States must prepare for war in space, because any enemy nation will be tempted to offset the […]

NASA isn’t planning to award future contracts to the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) or to the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide cargo transport to the International Space Station, NASA […]

Protection Of Czech Republic Against Missile Attack Also Assured The United States has guaranteed to protect the Czech Republic from any potential Russian attack on an envisioned European Missile Defense […]

[Satellite Today 07-21-08] BADR-6, boosted into orbit July 7, delivered its first signals, payload manufacturer Thales Alenia Space announced July 18.     BADR-6, built by Astrium, is equipped with 24 […]

[Satellite News 07-21-08] AeroAstro, a business unit of Radyne Corp., named Paul Lithgow COO, the company announced July 21.     Lithgow will supervise upper management and oversee current programs and […]

[Satellite Today 07-21-08] DirecTV taken on-orbit delivery of the DirecTV 11 satellite, spacecraft manufacturer Boeing Co. announced July 21.     DirecTV plans to use the satellite, placed in orbit in […]

[Satellite News 07-21-08] XM Satellite Radio added 322,000 net subscribers in the 2008 second quarter to bring its total subscriber base to 9.7 million, XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. announced […]

[Satellite News 07-21-08] Crawford Communications will use capacity on SES New Skies’ NSS-7 satellite to provide content aggregation, media, Internet and satellite services for the U.S. military‘s Digital Video and […]

[Satellite Today 07-21-08] DataPath Inc., has been awarded a contract under the SeaPort-Enhanced contract vehicle, the company announced July 21.     The award by the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center […]

[Satellite News 07-21-08] Louis Brothers, founder and president of Valley Forge Composite Technologies (VFCT), is so confident that his company’s new small satellite platform will be a revolution for the […]

[Satellite News 07-21-08] Inmarsat has ended discussions with Harbinger Capital Partners in regard to a possible offer for Inmarsat, the satellite operator said July 21.     Harbinger, which is Inmarsat’s […]

[Satellite Today 07-18-08] The BBC appointed Danielle Nagler to run its high-definition (HD) service as part of the BBC Vision team, the broadcaster announced July 18.     Nagler will focus […]

[Satellite News – 07-18-08] BSkyB, which serves around 1.4 million broadband subscribers in the United Kingdom, hopes to use that infrastructure to provide the next generation of content services to […]

[Satellite Today 07-18-08] SkyWave Mobile Communications introduced a dual-mode satellite/GPRS terminal that will provide transportation and logistics managers a means for communicating in urban and remote locations, the company announced […]

[Satellite Today 07-18-08] Space Angels Network LLC, a network of seed- and early-stage investors focused on aerospace-related ventures, issued a call for applicant companies for the Aerospace Venture Forum, Space […]