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Boeing Receives Contract to Support Australia's Vigilare System
Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)
Through a five-year, 66.7 million Australian dollar ($60.45 million) contract with the Australian Department of Defence, Boeing will provide enhanced support se...
50 SW changes command
Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)
The 50th Space Wing welcomed new leadership during a change-of-command ceremony held here July 11 at 9 a.m. Col. William J. Liquori took over the wing's reigns ...
Innovation extends ORS-1's life, mission
Jul 16, 2013 (AFNS)
The Operationally Responsive Space-1 satellite launched June 29, 2011, and has been a star Air Force performer since its first day on orbit. Members of the 1st ...
OHB To Supply German Army SARah radar satellite reconnaissance system
Jul 08, 2013 (SPX)
OHB System AG, a member of the space and technology group OHB AG (Prime Standard, ISIN: DE0005936124), has signed a contract with the Federal Office of Equipmen...
Kondor radar imaging satellite reaches target orbit
Jul 08, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
A Kondor radar imaging satellite of the Russian Defense Ministry launched with a Strela rocket, a conversion from the Soviet RS-18 intercontinental ballistic mi...
Japan to launch satellites to monitor oceans
Jul 07, 2013 (AFP)
Japan plans to launch satellites to monitor the world's oceans, a report said Sunday, as Chinese government ships sailed in waters around islands controlled by ...
Raytheon awarded NAVAIR contract to build and deploy cross-domain surveillance system
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
Raytheon has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to build an integrated multi-INT system to safeguard forward deployed forc...
Shields to Maximum, Mr. Scott
Jul 01, 2013 (SPX)
We know it's out there, debris from 50 years of space exploration - aluminum, steel, nylon, even liquid sodium from Russian satellites - orbiting around the Ear...
China to put second spacelab in orbit by 2015
Jun 28, 2013 (UPI)
China will go forward with development and construction of space labs and plans to launch its second, Tiangong-2, in 2015, an aerospace official said. The plans...
Astrium and CNES to improve Pleiades images quality
Jun 27, 2013 (SPX)
Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, and CNES, have achieved a major improvement in Pleiades image quality, including sharper products and enhanc...
Brazilian Air Force learns how to control satellites
Jun 25, 2013 (UPI)
Brazilian Air Force personnel have completed training in France on operating the South American country's future military communications satellite. The satellit...
China's long march in space
Jun 16, 2013 (XNA)
The Shenzhou X spacecraft, with three astronauts on board, blasted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province and entered its designated orbit o...
CoRE Bids To Support Launch Range Consolidation for USAF Space Command
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
Providing comprehensive support to consolidate the U.S. Air Force Space Command's launch ranges is the goal of an alliance that includes InDyne, Lockheed Martin...
Soyuz Takes Russian Military Satellite to Orbit
Jun 11, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
A Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket orbited a military satellite on Friday, the defense ministry's spokesman in charge of Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces said. The ro...
Iran opens space monitoring center
Jun 11, 2013 (XNA)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated a space monitoring center in the country's central city of Arak, official IRNA news agency reported. ...
Russia to Launch New Spy Satellite in June
Jun 04, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian military will launch a new reconnaissance satellite from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia on June 8, a space industry source said. "A Ru...
US-Australia agreement promotes space situational awareness
May 31, 2013 (AFPS)
A new agreement made between the United States and Australia represents the first in what U.S. Strategic Command's commander hopes will be many that promote tra...
AFSPC Vice Commander: Innovation desperately needed for tomorrow's challenges
May 31, 2013 (AFNS)
The kind of dramatic innovation that brought the world the Global Positioning System is desperately needed today in military space and cyberspace, according to ...
Russia to Launch South Korean Satellite in August
May 27, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian rocket will launch South Korea's latest multipurpose Arirang-5 satellite on August 22, Seoul's science ministry said on Thursday. The rocket will blas...
Ecuador satellite hits Soviet-era space junk
May 23, 2013 (AFP)
A tiny Ecuadoran satellite that collided in space with the remains of a Soviet rocket survived the crash, but was damaged and is not transmitting, Quito's space...
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