http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2009 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 8:44:34 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Suppliers and contractors in the United States are capable of meeting the nation's needs for solid rocket motors (SRM) but challenges remain, including the need for increased public and private investment and waning research, development... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7433.html Thu, 9 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT As we do each year, we shall observe the Independence Day holiday... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7317.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Obama Must Complete All Shuttle Missions, Even If That Means Funding, Flights In Fiscal 2011; And Don't Fund Shuttle Flights By Short-Changing Other Programs Senate Bill Lashes NASA For Procurement Cost Overruns, Delays; Space Agency Must Tighten Rules... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7318.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Bill Provides $18.68 Billion, Including $3.5 Billion To Develop New Spaceship System; NOAA To Get $1.2 Billion For Satellite Programs, Mikulski Announces Bill Mandates Warning When Program Costs Go 10 Percent Or More Over Initial Estimates A key Senate panel... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7319.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Funding Restoration Amendments Are Rejected Even More Cuts May Gouge Missile Defense Programs In Future Years, Lawmaker Warns Both the entire House and a key Senate panel backed President Obama's quest to slash $1.2 billion from ballistic missile programs, as... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7320.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Each Year May Bring Further Reductions In Missile Defense Funding Support, Lamborn Predicts While proponents of missile defense programs have expressed dismay at budget cuts now hitting those defensive shields, this may be just the beginning of an annual... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7321.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT But Defense Measure Also Encourages Talks With Russians Over Possible Joint Radar The pending Senate defense authorization bill leaves the European Missile Defense (EMD) program with just $51 million for the next fiscal year, which critics of the measure say... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7322.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Lunar Impacts Set For Oct. 9 Two NASA spacecraft are healthy and ramping up their systems, poised for pioneering lunar missions that will net key information for future manned U.S. explorations and settlements on the moon. One craft is the Lunar... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7323.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Obama Administration Isn't Seizing Control Of NPOESS To Fix Problems, Lawmakers Say The Senate Appropriations Committee expressed exasperation with the long-troubled National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, but provided... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7324.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Sea Launch, the company that provided a mid-ocean launch pad, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but said it wishes to continue operations. The filing came after the company had rallied from a 2007 disaster in which a Zenit 3SL rocket and the NSS8... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7325.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Obama Is Appalled At Iran Mistreating, Killing Protesters Who Allege Vote Fraud Chances Dim For Major Reduction In Iranian Missile-Nuclear Threat That Could Justify Abandoning European Missile Defense President Obama's hopes to negotiate an end to the Iranian... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7326.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz is examining the feasibility of missile defense systems mounted on aircraft, such as strike fighters. Interest in the Air Launched Hit-to-Kill systems... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7327.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Nuclear forces at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., passed inspections with the highest possible score. That's a reversal from the situation two years ago, when six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles were on-loaded to a plane and mistakenly flown to Barksdale Air... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7328.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT North Korea May Launch Taepo Dong-2 Missile On Saturday, Perhaps Toward Hawaii: Reports U.S. missile defense systems very likely can demolish any missile that North Korea launches to hit U.S. territory, said Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7329.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket roared from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Saturday evening, to place a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, into orbit. Ironically, that liftoff of... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7330.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT A Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite called SV-2 took a transcontinental flight on a C-17 from California to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., but only for a visit, not for a launch into space. The navigation satellite instead will be used as... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7331.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT The TerreStar-1 telecommunications satellite was mated to its Ariane 5 launcher, set for a July 1 launch, Arianespace announced. TerreStar-1 will be the world's largest civilian telecommunications satellite ever launched, according to the company, and it is riding... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7332.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Updated -- June 26, 2009 - 7:15 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | * No Earlier Than (Tentative) |** To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 27 Mission: GOES-O Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta IV Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7333.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT NASA gave Wackenhut Services Inc. a $1.2 billion contract to provide security services at NASA installations, after Wackenhut successfully sued the space agency when it earlier had awarded the contract to a rival firm, Coastal International Security. Further... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7334.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Making Another ESA Facility In South America, After Spaceport The European Space Agency (ESA) announced plans for a ground station to be built in South America, assuming negotiations are successful. The ESA station would be built in Malargue, Argentina, where... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/space/7335.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT