SS/L To Manufacture EchoStar 15
[Satellite Today – 4-22-08] Space Systems/Loral (SS/) will build the EchoStar 15 satellite for Dish Network Corp., SS/L announced April 22. The satellite will be the eighth spacecraft SS/L has...
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TerreStar To Slice Workforce By Nearly 50 Percent
[Satellite News – 4-22-08] Following a shakeup of its management team, TerreStar Networks Inc. is laying off nearly half of its employees in a cost-cutting measure, parent company TerreStar Corp....
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TerreStar Restructures Board, Announces Layoffs
[Satellite News – 4-22-08] On the heels of the resignation of CEO and President Robert Brumley, TerreStar Networks Inc. is laying off nearly half of its employees in a cost-cutting...
Former Pentagon Testing Chief Claims Airborne Laser Can't Kill Enemy Missiles If They're Painted White
A Test, However, Shows White Target Missile Body Blasted Wide Open In Airborne Laser Ground Shot This is what the Airborne Laser can do to the body of a missile...
Soyuz Carrying Record-Breaking U.S. Astronaut, Russian, Korean, Has Fast, Rough, Off-Target 'Ballistic' Reentry
Peggy Whitson, Space Station Expedition 16 Commander, Breaks Record For Cumulative Time In Space For Any U.S. Astronaut, Male Or Female, With 377 Days Aloft Russian Cosmonauts Still Hold World-Wide...
FAA Report Sees Boom And Huge Opportunities In Tiny Commercial Space Ventures
Are Private Space Transport Firms Today Where Microsoft Was When It Sold Stock In 1985? Broader, Established Space Transport Industry Sees Revenues, Profits Soar More Than 40 Percent Over Two...
Allied Nations Interested In Buying THAAD Ballistic Missile Defense Systems
Space Based Radar Needed Because Ground Radars Blind In Some Spots Europeans Would Welcome Mobile Kinetic Energy Interceptor Missile Defense Some nations are interested in buying the Terminal High Altitude...
Aegis, THAAD Interceptor Production Rate To Double In 2010-2015, But Funding Wouldn't Double
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will seek approval to roughly double the production rate of new Aegis and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile interceptors in fiscal years...
Small Nuclear Weapon Detonated In Washington Would Wreak Destruction Over Wide Area
Total Destruction Of Buildings Near Blast Would Be Followed By Widespread Fatalities In Radioactive Fallout Over Many Miles Even a small, primitive nuclear bomb detonated on the National Mall in...
Missile Defense Makes War Less Likely, Rather Than Precipitating Conflict
Another Minuteman Overhaul May Be Needed U.S. moves to form a multi-layered ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield help to avert conflict, much as the vast U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons...