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Atlantis Now Blasts Off At 10:19 P.M. ET On Oct. 14, While Endeavour Will Launch At 7:07 P.M. ET Nov. 16, NASA Announces NASA delayed its next two space shuttle […]

Congress Gives KEI Program Full Appropriations Funding Of $386 Million, As Bush Requested The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) ballistic missile interceptor system, in a successful rocket motor test last week, […]

A Minotaur II rocket launched to support the Missile Defense Agency Near-Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE), Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] announced. That launch for the Air Force Space and Missile Systems […]

Sea Launch is poised to launch the Intelsat Galaxy 19 satellite on Wednesday, Sea Launch announced. A 72-hour countdown is underway at the launch site. All systems and personnel are […]

A Galaxy 19 satellite for Intelsat was lofted to orbit by a Zenit-3SL rocket that lifted off the Sea Launch Odyssey platform at the Equator, Space Systems/Loral, the satellite provider, […]

Updated — September 26 – 9:20 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: October + Mission: TacSat-3 Launch Vehicle: […]

The European Space Council urged greater coordination between civil and defense programs. Europeans called for further dialogue on the issue, including the European Space Agency as a participant. The Europeans […]

Space Coast Launch Services Receives $40.2 Million Air Force Contract Change The Air Force gave Space Coast Launch Services a $40.2 million contract change for launch operations support. Space Coast […]

The Phoenix lander, a plucky geologist unlocking many mysteries of Mars, is laboring away and still producing rich scientific finds as it faces a death sentence, NASA briefers said this […]

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone, NASA reported. […]

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Report Says Missile Threat Worsens, Outlines Need For American BMD System Russia successfully launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that Moscow claims can defeat U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]

The Europeans wish to be independent of the United States in space, including a capacity to make their own satellites and launchers. As the United States falls on hard times, […]

Barring Problems, Atlantis Lifts Off Oct. 10, Endeavour Slated For Nov. 12 Blast-Off After Atlantis, Endeavour Go Aloft, Only Nine Shuttle Missions To Launch Before Shuttle Fleet Retires In 2010 […]

Provision Doesn’t Specify Which Nation Is Site The Senate voted out a defense authorization bill for the soon-to-begin fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, approving an amendment that would provide […]

The United States shouldn’t leap to expand its missile defense system to protect U.S. military and civilian space assets from enemy attack, Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the Air […]

Chinese Rocket Rolled Out To Launch Pad, As Taikonauts Arrive For Manned Mission Chinese space workers finished rolling out the Long-March II-F rocket topped by a spaceship, moving the system […]

NASA Extends Information Technology Contract For $214.4 Million NASA extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] of San Diego. This extension […]

NASA and the Air Force are looking for university and industry partners to advance hypersonic research. The NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s […]

GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY] resolved compliance problems with the Nasdaq stock exchange, the company announced. Filing a restatement of its past financial reports, and 10Q reports filed with the Securities and […]

Electronic units of the payload module have been integrated into the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. Northrop is under contract to […]

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope built for NASA completed its on-orbit checkout, General Dynamics Corp. [GD] announced. The company completed the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) of the telescope. Fermi, […]

Progress Docking At Space Station Delayed As Hurricane Ike Closes Johnson Russia launched a Progress freighter spaceship as scheduled, but then found it couldn’t dock the Progress with the International […]

NASA has increased its use of temporary hirings, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress stated. Since NASA was given the power to appoint employees to positions for limited […]

Chinese Space Advances Come As NASA Faces Serious Woes China is wrapping up preparations for liftoff as early as next week of its third manned space flight that will include […]

Russia Lambasted For Continued Occupation Of Georgian Provinces; Asian Nations Provide $40 Million Low-Interest Loan To Georgia But Some U.S. Lawmakers Still Are Cool To Providing Funds Required To Build […]

New North Korean Missile Launching Facility Taking Shape North Korea, which with great fanfare demolished a portion of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, now is […]

Engineers finished testing a small solid rocket motor that will help to separate the second stage of the next-generation Ares I rocket from the first stage, NASA announced. That small […]

Energomash Science and Production Association has developed a rocket engine with reusable liquid propellant engines that can markedly lower the cost per launch, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. […]

A new report finds that seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States still hasn’t mounted an effective effort to prevent the spread of nuclear and other catastrophic […]