Space Business News
September 29, 2010
MISSILE DEFENSE
MEADS Life Cycle Costs Significantly Lower Than Fielded Systems
Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 28, 2010
The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has presented a required life cycle cost estimate to the three partner nations that proves the MEADS system design will significantly reduce the cost of ownership compared to air and missile defense systems that are currently fielded. MEADS will especially reduce operation and support (O and S) costs. Ordinarily, over two-thirds of the total cost of ownership is spent in this area, but MEADS O and S costs are about half. Savings result from fe ... read more

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ENERGY TECH

Magnetic Power Offers Energy-Saving Alternative
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EARTH OBSERVATION

U.K. company plans survey satellite fleet
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GPS NEWS

Rush Trucking Selects SkyBitz To Increase Security And Asset Efficiency
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VSAT NEWS

Military Terrestrial Satcom Market To Grow Slightly
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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.

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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

Space security surveillance gets new boost
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GPS NEWS

Geotagged Photos Help Prioritize Oil Spill Response In Gulf
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SPACE TRAVEL

Be Careful What You Do With Space Garbage
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ENERGY TECH

U.S. firm plans to run boats on batteries
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TECH SPACE

NASA's NPP Climate Satellite Passes Pre-Environmental Review
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DRAGON SPACE

China's Mystery Moon Rocket
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SPACE TRAVEL

Virgin to launch space tourism in 18 months: Branson
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TECH SPACE

Northrop Grumman Space Cryocoolers Achieve 100 Years Of On-Orbit Performance
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SPACE TRAVEL

CSF Strongly Supports Senate NASA Authorization Bill
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TECH SPACE
Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 24, 2010
Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "digital natives" born in the wired age. Under the "future school" project, 10 elementary schools will give all their under-12 pupils tablet PCs and fit their classrooms with interactive electronic blackboards starting as early as next month. The networke ... more

SPACE TRAVEL
ADI Advances US Legislative Campaign Against Planned NASA Primate Experiments
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2010
Animal Defenders International (ADI), the leading animal welfare organization that works globally for the protection of animals, launched a major U.S. educational and legislative campaign to secure public and government support to prevent NASA from proceeding with irradiating squirrel monkeys to study adverse effects of space radiation. The centerpiece of the legislative campaign is a comp ... more

ROBO SPACE
Dancing Robot Swan Triggers Emotions
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Sep 24, 2010
The Dying Swan is sometimes moving smoothly and gently, sometimes in a dramatic and fiery manner, as Tchaikovsky's majestic music from the ballet Swan Lake is playing. Yet this is no ordinary ballet dancer, but a robot in the form of a swan, created at Malardalen University and choreographed by professional dancer Asa Unander-Scharin. The swan robot's just over four-minute-long dance has s ... more

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CAR TECH

World's first hybrid GT race car makes green sexy

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

MEADS Demonstrates Interoperability With NATO


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TECH SPACE
This Planet Smells Funny

Scientists looking to spot alien oceans

Deadly Tides Mean Early Exit For Hot Jupiters

TECH SPACE
Northrop Grumman Space Cryocoolers Achieve 100 Years Of On-Orbit Performance

NASA's NPP Climate Satellite Passes Pre-Environmental Review

Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms

TECH SPACE
Geotagged Photos Help Prioritize Oil Spill Response In Gulf

Rush Trucking Selects SkyBitz To Increase Security And Asset Efficiency

E-Shirt Improves Physical Exercise

TECH SPACE
China's Mystery Moon Rocket

China Ready For Another Lunar Encounter

China keeps up busy space launch schedule

TECH SPACE
Supernova Shrapnel Found In Meteorite

Impact 'fireballs' spotted on Jupiter

Catch A Falling Star

TECH SPACE
Pan-STARRS Discovers Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

Rosetta Should Look South For Safe Landing Site

Scientists find 'rubble pile' asteroids

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MISSILE DEFENSE
Northrop Grumman And Boeing Partner For Missile Defense Simulation Architecture Contract
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 29, 2010
Northrop Grumman and Boeing has announced a strategic partnership to pursue the competitive contract for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Objective Simulation Framework (OSF) that will integrate the MDA's modeling and simulation architectures. "The MDA has an essential need to more efficiently validate Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) performance through the increased use of modeling and simulation," said Karen Williams, vice president of Air and Missile Defense Systems for Northrop Gr ... read more

MISSILE DEFENSE
Northrop Grumman Space Cryocoolers Achieve 100 Years Of On-Orbit Performance

NASA's NPP Climate Satellite Passes Pre-Environmental Review

Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms

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MISSILE DEFENSE
Space security surveillance gets new boost

Raytheon GBS Delivers Full-Motion Video To Improve Intelligence Imagery For Warfighters

MEADS Demonstrates Interoperability With NATO

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MISSILE DEFENSE
Vandenberg launches Minotaur IV

LockMart And ATK Athena Launch Vehicles Selected As A NASA Launch Services Provider

Sirius XM-5 Satellite Delivered To Baikonur For October Launch

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MISSILE DEFENSE
Geotagged Photos Help Prioritize Oil Spill Response In Gulf

Rush Trucking Selects SkyBitz To Increase Security And Asset Efficiency

E-Shirt Improves Physical Exercise

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MISSILE DEFENSE
BAE pushes Hawk jet trainers for Iraq

Human-Powered Ornithopter Becomes First Ever To Achieve Sustained Flight

Swiss solar plane completes flight across Switzerland

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