http://www.viasatellite.com Satellite Today en-us 2008 Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:36:41 EDT Report Says Missile Threat Worsens, Outlines Need For American BMD System Russia successfully launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that Moscow claims can defeat U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems, North Korea test- fired an engine for its emergent ICBM, and the Heritage... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24695.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Europeans wish to be independent of the United States in space, including a capacity to make their own satellites and launchers. As the United States falls on hard times, both economically/financially and in the future of its space program, the Europeans issued a declaration of independence from the... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24696.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Barring Problems, Atlantis Lifts Off Oct. 10, Endeavour Slated For Nov. 12 Blast-Off After Atlantis, Endeavour Go Aloft, Only Nine Shuttle Missions To Launch Before Shuttle Fleet Retires In 2010 Space Shuttle Endeavour arrived at Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, where it will be poised to act as a... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24697.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Provision Doesn't Specify Which Nation Is Site The Senate voted out a defense authorization bill for the soon-to-begin fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, approving an amendment that would provide $89 million for activation and deployment of an AN/TPY forward-based X-band missile defense radar. Just which... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24699.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT The United States shouldn't leap to expand its missile defense system to protect U.S. military and civilian space assets from enemy attack, Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the Air Force Space Command, said. Rather, Kehler said, the United States should focus on assuring that a capability provided by a... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24700.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Chinese Rocket Rolled Out To Launch Pad, As Taikonauts Arrive For Manned Mission Chinese space workers finished rolling out the Long-March II-F rocket topped by a spaceship, moving the system onto the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, the official Xinhua news agency... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24701.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT NASA Extends Information Technology Contract For $214.4 Million NASA extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] of San Diego. This extension permits completion of an information technology infrastructure realignment and... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24702.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT NASA and the Air Force are looking for university and industry partners to advance hypersonic research. The NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington and the Air Force Research Laboratory's Office of Science Research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, released a broad... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24703.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT GeoEye, Inc. [GEOY] resolved compliance problems with the Nasdaq stock exchange, the company announced. Filing a restatement of its past financial reports, and 10Q reports filed with the... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24705.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Electronic units of the payload module have been integrated into the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. Northrop is under contract to provide three communications payloads to Advanced EHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin... http://www.viasatellite.com/smd/24707.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT