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Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio both posted smaller third-quarter net losses as subscriber growth helped boost revenue gains for both companies. Sirius posted revenue of $167.1 million in...

Democrats taking control of Congress by a narrow margin are likely to criticize ballistic missile defense programs, but won’t kill the plan to erect a multi-layered shield against enemy missiles....

NASA is taking steps to contain risks on upcoming space shuttle flights, senior space agency officials said in briefing journalists. For example, while NASA has launched shuttles in daylight to...

The Air Force gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a $299.8 million contract for production of the fourth Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS). This is the first option to be exercised on...

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a $78.2 million contract for work on ICBM systems. Boeing will deploy a replacement Environmental Control System (ECS) for more than...

The Air Force gave Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] a $126.2 million contract change to shore up the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) that is designed to track enemy missiles....

The Air Force gave The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) a contract for initial design work on the Lightweight Electro-Optical Space Sensor (LEOSS) program. During this phase of...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gave L-3 Communications [LLL] a contract to assess its second generation Civil Aircraft Protection System (CAPS2) for the protection of commercial aircraft from man-portable...

Raytheon Co. [RTN] acquired and tracked a new M-code military signal transmitted by a global positioning satellite, the company announced. Part of the Modernized User Equipment program, The latest-generation global...

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] delivered all V-Sensor deployable antenna assemblies that will be used to detect nuclear blasts, the company reported. The antennas are an adjunct payload on the Global...