Double Lunar Craft Launched On Atlas V From Cape Canaveral Air Force Base
First ASA Mission To Moon In A Decade NASA launched an Atlas V heavy lifter rocket carrying two lunar spacecraft, the first U.S. moon mission in a decade and a...
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Boeing Hands Over Wideband Satellite To Air Force
The Boeing Co. [BA] transferred control of the second Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite to the Air Force, which will monitor and control the new satellite from Schriever Air Force...
NASA Short Of Funds Needed To Fund Orion-Ares, Other Assigned Missions
Disrupting Constellation Program Spacecraft Development Could Mean More Job Losses, On Top Of Plunging Space Shuttle Employment Underfunding Can Threaten Astronauts’ Lives NASA, the largest space agency on the planet,...
Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) Completes Program
The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system completed integration and testing of the space segment, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Initial testing of the ground segments also was completed. This...
Space Shuttle Endeavour Sidelined For Weeks By Persistent Hydrogen Leak In Vent Line From Fuel Tank
Space Shuttle Endeavour has been grounded yet again by the same gremlin that kept it sitting on the launch pad last week: a leaking gaseous hydrogen venting system on the...
AEHF Satellite In Tests
The first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (Advanced EHF) military communications satellite is now undergoing final thermal vacuum testing, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. The second AEHF satellite completed thermal vacuum...
Though Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Is Designed To Counter Long-Range Korean Missiles, THAAD Is Given Shoot-Down Role
North Korea May Be Poised To Launch Another Taepo Dong-2 Ballistic Missile Toward Japan Or Hawaii In Early July Obama Says U.S. Poised For ‘Any Contingencies’ Although the Ground-based Midcourse...
Study: NPOESS Has 'Extraordinarily Low Probability Of Success'
NPOESS Program Run With Cost Savings Paramount, Not Mission Success: Study Witnesses: NPOESS Is Broke, And It Is Time To Fix It; Yet Another $1 Billion Cost Rise Is Predicted...
O'Reilly Touts Airborne Laser For Second Successful Tracking Test
Military Leaders Say Total U.S. Missile Defense System Has 90 Percent Chance Of Success Sens. Sessions, Begich, Flail Cuts In Missile Defense Budget Before Study Is Done; Sen. Thune Backs...
Arianespace To Launch Twin Galileo Navigation Satellites Next Year on Soyuz
Two Arianespace-led Russian Soyuz spacecraft each will launch two Galileo navigational satellites next year two begin construction of the navigational constellation, the company announced. The European Space Agency aims to...