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European Missile Defense Receives $465 Million In Defense Authorization, $246 Million Under Budget Request Congress, rushing to wrap up work for the year ahead of the Nov. 4 general election, […]

The IKONOS commercial remote sensing satellite has been on orbit and continues to function, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. GeoEye Inc. [GEOY] owns and operates the bird, which supplies high-resolution […]

NASA reaches its 50th anniversary Wednesday, a celebration dampened by the fact that the agency is strapped for funds and facing years of depending on arch-rival Russia to transport American […]

But Congress Orders NASA Not To Take Action That Could Preclude Flying Space Shuttles After 2010 Congress Gives NASA $1 Billion Leeway To Accelerate Orion-Ares; Overall NASA Authorization Is $20.2 […]

By Marina Malenic The Air Force is doing "everything humanly possible" to ensure that any industry protest of an upcoming multibillion-dollar satellite contract will not be upheld by auditors, but […]

NASA needs technology, design and components that will cut weight and costs in Constellation Program systems such as the Orion space capsule and Ares rocket, the next- generation space hardware […]

An emergency $700 billion financial industry bailout package that a worried, hurried Congress wrote to stave off a global economic disaster may serve to further tighten finances of many federal […]

Russian saber rattling and belligerence against U.S. plans to build a European Missile Defense (EMD) system in the Czech Republic and Poland may, ironically, have so worried the Czechs and […]

The the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) research satellite successfully detected and tracked a modified Minuteman II booster vehicle with a simplified target payload that was launched from Vandenberg Air […]

President Bush is failing to provide action required to facilitate provision of new arms to Taiwan, a military analyst said. Therefore, a White House decision on the issue likely may […]

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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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

  The Air Force has asked the Department of Defense (DOD) expedite the review process triggered by massive cost growth of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite communications system […]

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 […]