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The 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.
Read MoreDuring a visit to Turkey this week, the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is going to see what he can accomplish in selling the idea of an Israeli satellite and other military goodies to that country.
Read MoreAnother home run by Raytheon, as the company has just received a $75 million from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the Minuteman Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network.
Read MoreAlliant Techsystems has been notified by the Department of the Air Force that the Launch Systems Group has temporarily been placed on the Excluded Parties List.
Read MoreKVH Industries, Inc. [Nasdaq: KVHI] has received two orders from a U.S. defense contractor for the purchase of components and upgrades for KVH's TACNAV vehicle navigation systems for use on U.S. military combat vehicles.
Read MoreA $15 million contract to develop advanced infrared focal-plane arrays (FPAs) for U.S.A.F. missile defense surveillance satellites has been awarded to BAE Systems.
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