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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) gave Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] phase 1 of the $37-million Terahertz (THz) Electronics contract, the company announced. That will support military and space...

European Missile Defense Wouldn’t Work Against Iranian Missiles, Report Asserts; Its Authors Include Missile Defense Critics Lt. Gen. O’Reilly Rejects Anti-European Missile Defense Report As Based On Incorrect Assumptions, ‘Not...

International Space Station crew members on Expedition 19 drank recycled urine provided by a recycling and purifying machine, and lived to tell the tale. Recycling urine, sweat and other human...

In Return, Kazakhstan Orders Two EADS Astrium Satellites Providing yet another example of the globalization and rising competition in the space industry, Astrium, a unit of the European Aeronautic and...

One of NASA’s two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater. The Mars rover, Opportunity, surveyed the...

Developing, Deploying Solid-State Laser Could Take About 10 Years: Estimate Technical Hurdles To Lasers Surmountable, But Non-Technical Barriers Must Be Bested The United States faces a grim threat of rogue...

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] submitted a bid for the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) competition, the company announced today. The firm leads one of two...

While President Obama is praiseworthy for adding funds to the NASA budget for the next fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010, the space agency still is sorely underfunded, including the...

Need For 44 Ground-based Midcourse Interceptors Was Not Based On Sound Analysis, O’Reilly Says European Missile Defense Fiscal 2010 Budget Weak Because Legal Curbs Won’t Permit Spending More Than $51...

This is a special issue of Space & Missile Defense Report, containing breaking news in a week filled with major events. As we do each year, we shall observe the...