http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2009 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:19:00 EST By Marina Malenic The United States should put more of its military space budget toward creating greater redundancy in its proven space systems, rather than counting on next-generation capabilities that are still a long way from maturity, Air Force Gen. Kevin... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8548.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] and the Navy successfully flight tested the extended range variant of the Joint Stand Off Weapon (JSOW ER) earlier this month off the California coast, meeting all test objectives, a company official said. The Navy will include... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8549.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The third Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-3) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [LMT] to provide significantly improved navigation capabilities for military and civilian users worldwide, has reached 10 years of successful on-orbit... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8550.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST ITT [ITT] announced Nov. 2 that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan's largest satellite manufacturer, has selected ITT Space Systems to build the imaging systems for two geostationary satellites being built for the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8551.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Marina Malenic Raytheon [RTN] has been awarded a $46 million, 25-month contract modification to make its missile early-warning Third-Generation Infrared Sensor (Three-GIRS) flight-ready. "Under the modification we've been awarded, we'll take the sensor... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8552.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein Wednesday's latest test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) continued to demonstrate the success of Raytheon's [RTN] Standard Missile-3 (SM- 3), and was the second positive test this month for the company's SM family. "It couldn't have... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8553.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Marina Malenic After a day-long weather-related delay, NASA Oct. 28 launched a next-generation moon rocket that could replace the Space Shuttle. At 1130 EST, the 177-foot-tall Ares I-X took off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., and flew for six minutes... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8554.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Ann Roosevelt Japan and the U.S. Missile Defense agency (MDA) Oct. 28 announced the successful intercept flight test of an Aegis Ballistic Missile (BMD) in cooperation with the U.S. Navy off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Japan Flight Test Mission 3 (JFTM-3)... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8555.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1 billion contract for continued development and evolution of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System, the company said recently. Under the terms of the contract, Lockheed... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8556.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST SES WORLD SKIES on Oct. 29 announced that the NSS-12 satellite successfully roared into space on-board an Ariane 5 ECA booster from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Approximately 27 minutes after lift-off the spacecraft separated from the... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8557.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The telescope element of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by Northrop Grumman [NOC], has successfully passed a critical design review verifying it will perform as designed, and now moves forward to final manufacturing steps and integration of... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8558.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Lockheed Martin's [LMT] new multi-functional AGM-114R HELLFIRE II missile scored a direct hit during its first proof-of-principle (POP) flight test recently at Eglin Air Force Base, FL. "The multi-functional HELLFIRE II missile is one missile for many... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8559.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Raytheon [RTN] was recently awarded two contracts worth in excess of $100 million by Israel's Rafael to design and develop the David's Sling Weapon System. The DSWS is a joint program between the Missile Defense Agency and the Israel Missile Defense... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8560.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's Oct. 29 mission is now complete following the installation of its second payload--the NSS-12 satellite for telecommunications operator SES WORLD SKIES. Encapsulated in a protective fairing, NSS-12 was mated atop Ariane 5... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8411.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT Alliant Techsystems [ATK] and NASA made history Oct. 20 as the Ares I-X rocket rolled to the launch pad, marking the first time in more than 25 years a new vehicle has left the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center. The Ares I-X flight test... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8412.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT Adding to the Atlas rocket program's accomplished five-decade legacy, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V successfully launched the Air Force's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F18 (DMSP F18) mission from Space Launch Complex-3 here Oct. 18. The... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8413.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT Lockheed Martin [LMT] last week said the Navy conducted successful test flights Sept. 3 and 4 of two Trident II D-5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBMs). The Navy launched the unarmed missiles from the submerged submarine USS West Virginia (SSBN 736) in the... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8414.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) said recently that it successfully conducted two static firings of the first stage, nine-engine cluster for its Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The firings took place at SpaceX's Texas Test Site, a 300-acre structural and... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8415.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently said it has demonstrated the interface compatibility of the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite's dual legacy and next-generation Ultra High Frequency (UHF) communications payloads with ground user test... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8416.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Army and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) activated the second Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Battery recently in a ceremony at Fort Bliss, Texas. The A-2 Battery consists of approximately 100 Soldiers in the 11th Air Defense Artillery... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/8417.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT