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U.S. negotiators must focus on persuading North Korea to surrender any capabilities to fire nuclear-tipped missiles toward North America, rather than becoming enmeshed in other issues such as counterfeiting of...

President Bush signed into law a supplemental appropriations bill that provides funding for various space- and missile-related programs in the current fiscal 2006 that ends Sept. 30. For example, the...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] and Raytheon Co. [RTN] separately received Air Force contracts for the Paveway laser guided bomb program. Lockheed gained a $32.7 million contract to deliver Paveway II...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] finished a four-year program to integrate its precision-strike Hellfire II missile system, including the M299 “smart launcher,” with its first international helicopter launch platform, Eurocopter’s Tiger...

Raytheon Co. [RTN], Konigsberg Defense [KGBC.OB] and Ericsson [ERICY] will seek a contract that Estonia will award for an air defense missile system, Raytheon announced. They will seek the contract...

Kazakhstan launched its first satellite, KazSat 1, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the eastern part of the nation, according to news services. The satellite will be used for TV signals...

The Space Shuttle Discovery will launch on July 1 despite concerns of safety and engineering officials that further redesign work should be performed before the space commuter goes aloft again,...

A Soyuz launch vehicle lifted from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to place a Resurs-DK remote sensing spacecraft in orbit. It was the 1,709th launch of a Soyuz vehicle, according...

France and India are celebrating 25 years of collaboration on space programs at events in Paris. The celebration will include Arianspace, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), and the French...

The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is slated for launch July 22, according to NASA. STEREO blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., is slated for 3:11 to 3:13...