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Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] was awarded the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency Systems Engineering, Management and Sustainment (SEMS) II contract to increase effectiveness, reliability, and performance, while reducing total cost of ownership, for a variety of classified and unclassified Air Force weather systems.
Read MoreThe MILSATCOM Systems Wing has informed all that the payload module of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite (AEHF) military communications satellite was successfully delivered three weeks ahead of schedule from Northrop Grumman's facilities in Redondo Beach, California, to the AEHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin facilities, located in Sunnyvale, California.
Read MoreHarris Corporation [NYSE: HRS] has received a contract from the Defence Forces of Norway to provide several thousand RF-7800S Secure Personal Radios.
Read MoreAccording to Marine General James Cartwright, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there is a high degree of confidence that the U.S. Navy missile launched yesterday scored a direct hit on the falling U.S. spysat, once the order to proceed had been received from Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Read MoreThe first operational traffic was carried successfully on Skynet 5B at 05:00 on January 28th, 2008, one month earlier than originally planned. Skynet 5B was launched on an Ariane 5 launcher on November 9th, 2007, from Kourou, French Guiana.
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy has shot down the wayward U.S. spysat over the Pacific... the missile struck the satellite 130 miles in the atmosphere and destroyed the satellite at 10:30 EST.
Read MoreOK, the plan to destroy the failed U.S. spysat continues to develop... this coming Thursday offers the window of opportunity for annihilation, the day after the Atlantis shuttle makes it home.
Read MoreOh, that bane of the civilized world... the United States... and its rotten, filthy, uncaring spy satellite that's about to crash down and ruin many a life and country by smacking someone upside the head and depositing some ruinous form of hazardous material into the life stream... well, you'd think Chicken Little was, indeed, alive and managed most of the world's media outlets.
Read MoreA Navy missile will be fired at the recalcitrant U.S. spy satellite that is heading to Earth in an attempt to reduce the re-entry remnant to negligible bits.
Read MoreContract modifications to the tune of $287,997,350 and $210,429,500 have been awarded to Boeing Launch Services and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, respectively.
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