Financially Speaking… NASA
NASA has announced a $17.6 billion budget for fiscal year 2009 to continue exploring the solar system, building the International Space Station, studying Earth from space and conducting aeronautics research.
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DoD Budget Request Heads To U.S. Congress
A 3.4 percent military pay raise, a 2.9 percent civilian raise, money to continue to grow the Army and Marines, and a funding increase to maintain readiness, all are major aspects of the fiscal 2009 defense budget request President Bush sent to Congress today. The defense budget request is for $515.4 billion—a $35.9 billion increase over the 2008 level. The total federal budget request for fiscal 2009 is $3.1 trillion.
Read MoreIran Claims Their Satellite Is For Research
Gotta keep an eye on this alleged "leader" of Iran... the country has tested a missile that can lift a satellite into space, this according to the country's state television service.
Read MoreU.S.A.F. Hits Up Congress For Billions Of Bucks
Military space programs, satellites, missiles, systems... all cost big bucks!
Read MoreDemo Done By Northrop Grumman For EHF
Northrop Grumman Corporation [NYSE:NOC] has demo'd the interface compatibility of the nexgen Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military communications satellite with user ground terminals using the new Extended Data Rate (XDR) waveform and protocols.
Read MoreRaytheon To Broadcast Super Bowl To Troops!
We just received a call from <b>Raytheon</b> last Friday morning regarding the approval just granted them to broadcast the <b><i>Super Bowl LXII</i></b> to our highly deserving and valiant sailors and marines who are at sea in the Pacific region.
Read MoreFrance & Italy Bretheren With Athena-Fidus SatProject
A Letter of Intent has been signed by both the French and Italian ministers of defense approving the Athena-Fidus geo-stationary comsat project.
Read MoreOCX & SBSS Both Part of Boeing’s Successful Contract Portfolio
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been selected to participate in the development of the nexgen Global Positioning System (GPS) ground system for the U.S. Air Force. Boeing has also successfully completed a series of Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) systems tests.
Read MoreHushSat Launched
Quiet...Sssshhhhhh... on December 10th at Cape Canaveral, a secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) spacecraft was pushed into space aboard an Atlas V rocket.
Read MoreIntegral Systems Detects USAF Contract Deployment… To Them!
The U.S.A.F. has exercised contract options totaling $29.8m for the Rapid Attack Identification Detection Report Systems (RAIDRS) Block 10 (RB-10) program to the recipient, Integral Systems, Inc. [NASDAQ:ISYS].
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