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By Geoff Fein The Navy is in the midst of Combat Systems Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) on the USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) and the ship has undergone successful testing of its hull, and mechanical and electrical systems (HM&E), according to a Navy official. Additionally, combat system ...

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has uttered multiple erroneous statements about the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) missile defense system that he wants to abolish, a noted military analyst said. Gates is provably wrong in many of his assertions about KEI, according to Daniel Goure of the ...

Updated -- May 15, 2009 - 11:40 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 13 + Mission: STS-127 Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A Launch Time: 7:19 a.m. EDT + Description: ...

President Obama has chosen to slash funding for ballistic missile defense programs just when the threat of missile attacks is skyrocketing, a pro-missile defense group asserted. Those funding cuts and program eliminations are inexplicable, given that they come after Iran launched a satellite using ...

Updated -- May 8, 2009 - 4:15 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: May 11 Mission: STS-125 Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A Launch Time: 2:01 p.m. EDT Description: Space Shuttle ...

SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. hired Arianespace to provide an Ariane 5 heavy lifter rocket to launch the JCSAT-13 communications satellite in 2013, Arianespace announced. The JCSAT-13 contract is the 27th that Arianespace has won in Japan out of 36 commercial contracts open to competition, according to ...