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| 01.05.2009 |
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Lockheed Delivers Subsystems For SBIRS Geo-2 Satellite 
Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the spacecraft bus subsystems for the emergent Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, Lockheed announced. It will be the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) satellite in the system. The GEO-2 spacecraft core...
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Lunar Orbiter Passes Thermal Vacuum Test
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, completed thermal vacuum testing, NASA announced. Those tests simulate extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space that LRO will experience after launch. This milestone concludes the orbiter's environmental test...
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Missile Defense Modeling And Simulation Advances
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has advanced modeling and simulation for missile defense testing, the agency announced. MDA oversaw successful execution of Flight Support Ground Test 03b (GTF-03b). The GTF-03b test event was a...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Now Fully Assembled At Cape Canaveral
Liftoff Seen Soon A Falcon 9 rocket has been fully integrated at Cape Canaveral, Fla., poised for a liftoff early this year, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, announced. The Falcon 9 is the large SpaceX rocket, and key to its hopes to become a...
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NASA Denies White House Killed U.S.-China Space Cooperation Deal
NASA denied a news report that the White House killed a U.S.-China space cooperation deal. Contrary to a news report, NASA never asked the White House for a cooperative mission such as the one described in the article, according to NASA. The fact is that the...
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Mars Rovers Still Going After Five Years
The Mars rovers, which NASA designed to send spectacular pictures of the red planet back to Earth, are still going some five years after landing in the alien world. That is 20 times longer than their intended lifespans. Of the hundreds of engineers and...
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Lockheed Gains $371.6 Million Contract For GMLRS Program
The Army gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $371.6 million firm fixed price contract for further work in the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System...
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Space Systems/Loral Finalizes Contract To Provide Satellite To Intelsat
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) finalized a previously announced satellite contract award to provide a new satellite to Intelsat. SS/L is ), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL]. "This...
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Raytheon Gains Up To $3.3 Billion Patriot Order For UAE
The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a not-to-exceed $3.3 billion order for advanced Patriot air and missile defense capability, whole life support and training for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Raytheon and teammate Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] worked with the...
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NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
Updated -- December 19, 2008 - 8:30 a.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Feb. 4 Mission: NOAA-N Prime Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta II Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base ...
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NLOS System Precision Attack Missile Completes Third Test
A Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System's Precision Attack Missile completed the third guided test flight for the weapon class. NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Co. [RTN] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] unit Missiles and Fire Control, completed the...
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Russia Launches Three Glonass-M Satellites On Proton Rocket
Russia launched three Glonass-M navigational satellites on a Proton robotic rocket that soared on Christmas from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...
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Ariane 5 Launches Two Satellites
An Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket lifted off from the spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, South America, to launch two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits. Those satellites were accurately injected into the correct transfer orbits...
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Arianespace Plans For Three Satellite Launches
Lockheed Decides To Use Ariane 5 Rocket To Launch Satellite For Japanese Operators In Liftoff From South American Spaceport Arianespace announced it will provide lift capability to orbit several satellites in three planned launches. Arianespace was selected...
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Report Details Causes Of Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
A new report from a study panel details the causes leading to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, with the panel recommending many corrective and preventive moves to avert further tragedies, while also concluding that some factors in the tragedy will...
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GAO Denies Raytheon Protest Over Aegis Mod Contract
Systems Upgrading Work Will Proceed On Navy Destroyers , Cruisers The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied Raytheon Co. [RTN] protests against several sole-source, non-competitive contracts that the Navy earmarked for Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] for...
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Boeing To Continue Ground-based Midcourse Defense Program For Six Months
Long-Term Contract To Be Decided In Impending Obama Administration The Missile Defense Agency gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a cost-plus-award-fee contract worth up to $397.9 million to continue the Ground-base Midcourse Defense (GMD) program for six months...
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NASA Awards Orbital, SpaceX ISS Resupply Flight Contracts
Space Agency Moves To Foster Private Commercial Logistics Spacecraft NASA, in a double departure from business as usual, has taken a giant step toward privatizing the transport of cargo to and from low Earth orbit, while also shifting from the common practice...
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Air Force Resets TSAT Competition
The Air Force shut down the existing Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) program competition without awarding a contract. Instead, the restructured contest now moves back to square one, with the air service issuing a new draft request for...
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Dassault Acquires Alcatel-Lucent Share Of Thales
Dassault Aviation signed papers to acquire Alcatel-Lucent [ALU] shares in Thales, Alcatel-Lucent announced. The deal...
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