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[Satellite Today 10-13-08] Orbital Sciences Corp. has completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite, the company announced Oct. 13.      Orbital said its engineering team...

[Satellite Today 10-13-08] DataPath Inc. has been awarded two delivery orders totaling $4.8 million by the U.S. Army for spare electronics and other equipment used to operate and maintain hundreds...

Continual Speedup, Slowdown Could Provide An Artificial Gravity, Eliminating Harm Weightlessness Causes Astronauts HAMPTON, Va. — Engineers working on the next-generation Constellation Program spaceship system design are considering propulsion units...

In Space Shuttle Program, 14 Crew Members So Far Died Over 17 Years In Two Disasters; NASA, Lockheed, Learning From Tragedies Reightler Says New System Eliminates Threats From Ice And...

Report Urges Revamping Defense, Intelligence Space Acquisition, Assails Sole-Source Contracts Better Relations Needed Between Military-Intelligence Agencies And Commercial Satellite Data Firms "The United States is losing its preeminence in space,"...

With Space Program, China Sees Military, Economic, Political Gains; China Makes Careful But Large Moves China sees its space program as an investment, not as an unwelcome budgetary outlay, a...

Neither of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates is expected to press for aggressive U.S. policies in space or the procurement of anti-satellite weapons, a new report suggests. Thus no major...

The Department of Defense (DOD) is falling short in tracking the health of the defense supplier base, according to a new report from the nonpartisan watchdog agency, the Government Accountability...

But Kennedy Loss Now Seen As Less Than Earlier Estimate Of 5,000 Or More Thousands Of Space Workers To Lose Paychecks As U.S. Economy Begins Slipping Into Downturn Thousands of...

The Venus Express spacecraft that will search for life on other planets is kicking off its work by focusing on one planet that likely can support life: Earth. The European...