U.S. Sea-Based Missile Defense Required: U.S. Navy Officer Iran is gaining increased capability to launch a massive ballistic missile attack that would overwhelm Israel, Vice Adm. James A. "Sandy" Winnefeld Jr. warned. "Perhaps most worrisome of the threats in the [Middle East] ...
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NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are joining to work on cooperative programs and technologies for a human encampment on the moon. That would involve, on the part of NASA, using the next-generation Orion-Ares spaceship system now in development. U.S. and European space programs leaders have ...
Ariane 5 Lofts ProtoStar I And BADR-6 Satellites Into Orbit An Ariane 5 heavy lift rocket lifted off from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, South America, and carried two satellites -- ProtoStar I and BADR-6 -- into orbit, Arianespace announced. The rocket shouldered a hefty payload on the ...
President Bush is lifting sanctions on North Korea, even though he remains "deeply concerned" about the rogue nation as a bad actor. But some observers asked why a treacherous nation should be rewarded, and why the United States would trust the leaders in Pyongyang. North Korea fired a ...
Lunar Craft Undergoes Checkout Prior To Mission A NASA spacecraft that will hit the moon has entered its final checkout phase, the space agency announced. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, will take a significant step forward in the search for water on the moon. ...
By Geoff Fein For the Navy to have a successful CG(X) program the service must be able to state the compelling operational need for the ship, leverage existing and mature new applied technologies, and have the support of the nation, according to a Lockheed Martin official. "The theme of this ...
Morphotek has received $1.7 million in funding approval from the Defense Department to further develop biologic-based monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapies targeting staphylococcal toxins as well as staph itself for the treatment of infectious diseases. Morphotek says it has developed multiple mAbs ...
Components of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) recently passed several tests, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said yesterday. That Integrated Ground Test (GTI)-03 checked hardware, software, and communication interfaces against simulated ballistic missile threats. This is the third ...
By Emelie Rutherford The dynamics of Congress' approach to missile defense has changed, with Democrats acting more accepting of national missile defense than in the past, yet also showing reticence toward longer-term options, a senior Senate Armed Services Committee staff member said. The ...
By Emelie Rutherford The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is looking for savings within its forthcoming longterm budget request so it can seek funds to double the number of Aegis Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors in the coming years, the agency's ...