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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007	National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Selects BAE Systems' Radiation-Hardened Computers for Worldview-1 Satellite The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency required a rugged computing system for its NextView program designed to gain high-resolution images of Earth via a new generation of imaging satellites.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John McHale	Rad-hard company designs non-volatile memory for megarad environments The C-RAM hard drive is for applications requiring large amounts of radiation-hardened, non-volatile memory.
National Defense June 2004 Peter Teets	Space Programs Reflect War-Fighting Priorities Space systems increasingly have become integrated into national intelligence and war-fighting operations.
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson	Murky Picture of What's Happening in Space Worries Air Force Officials There is a deterrent value to space situational awareness that doesn't grab the attention it should.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet	Q&A With Sir Martin Sweeting Surrey Satellite's CEO talks about the future of space exploration
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005	NASA names Honeywell for deep-space test mission NASA flight engineers needed data processing and control systems for a new mission -- a space flight validation mission that will test technologies for future deep space missions.
National Defense June 2015 Stew Magnuson	Air Force to Boost Budget to Prepare for Conflicts in Space A potential conflict on Earth that escalates into space has prompted the Air Force to find an extra $5 billion to spend on offensive and defensive systems to protect national security satellites.
National Defense September 2015 Graham Kilmer	Defense Leaders Make Renewed Push For Operationally Responsive Space The Defense Department is eyeing small satellites and new launch systems as potential ways to maintain U.S. space resilience.
National Defense June 2012 Eric Beidel	Researchers Develop Tow Truck for Space Scientists want to launch a robot into space that would remove functioning parts from retired satellites and transport them to a different orbit for continued use.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Troubled Space-Based Infrared Satellite Program Finally Gets Off the Ground On May 7, the Air Force successfully sent to geosynchronous orbit GEO-1, the first SBIRS satellite. It was a long, tortuous road, lasting some 15 years with a price tag that will come to $10.4 billion.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	'Wi-Fi in the Sky' The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving forward with a space program that could revolutionize the way satellites are procured and deployed.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006	In Brief DHS awards contract for improved first responder wireless... BAE Systems provides flight-line support for F-16 fighters... Boeing selected for U.S. Army World-Wide Satellite Systems program... etc.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can DARPA Rescue the Pentagon From Its Acquistion Doldrums? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a program last year to figure out how to build complex weapons five times faster than before. Now comes word that they also intend to revolutionize the way the military buys communications satellites.
Scientific American January 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Does Dark Matter Encircle Earth? Dark matter might exert measurable effects on the earth, moon and gas giants
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert	Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries.
AskMen.com	China Building Space Port China broke ground on its fourth space center Monday, highlighting the country's soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first man into orbit.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Scientists to develop miniature military robots U.S. Army, academic, and industry scientists are combining efforts to improve warfighter situational awareness with miniature robots inspired by biologic organisms found in nature.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John McHale	Boeing to Develop New Electronic Circuits for Extreme Space Environments Boeing is part of a team that received a NASA contract to develop a reliable, cost-effective electronic technology that helps robotic and human space missions operate in environments of extreme cold and space radiation.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008	In Brief Contract news from Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, BAE Systems and NASA Polar satellite ends service after 12 years
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	New Satellites to Keep Watch Over Space-Based Systems Two new satellites may be launched later this year that will help the U.S. defense community better understand what is happening to the multi-million dollar spacecraft it depends on.
PC Magazine October 12, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	My Orbit: Send Your Own Satellite For about $40,000, students and organizations can send their own satellites into orbit around the Earth through the CubeSat Project.
Home Theater May 18, 2010 Mark Fleischmann	Dizzy Satellite May Thwart Cable Intelsat, a communications company, says it has lost control of one of its satellites.
National Defense June 2015 Vinny Sica	Enabling Satellites to Do More With Less Satellite customers should continue to prioritize a streamlined approach by investing more in ground modernization and reuse of existing capabilities where feasible.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	BAE Systems Introduces Handheld Thermal Imagers for Law Enforcement The HHC100 Series is a low-cost, lightweight, rugged series of IR cameras. The U.S. Army recently selected BAE Systems to supply a family of next-generation thermal weapon sights for its soldiers.
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	Air Force Faces Daunting Task to Determine What's Happening in Space The Air Force needs to monitor to have a complete picture of what is happening to the thousands of orbiting systems that circle the planet.
National Defense October 2015 Allyson Versprille	Analysts: U.S. Must Ramp Up Space Program The United States needs to put more emphasis on advancing space-based capabilities if it hopes to maintain its strategic advantage over China, analysts said.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008	Northrop Grumman Completes Integration of Third Payload Module for Advanced EHF Satellites Boeing completes mission system flight testing for U.S. AWACS Block 40/45 upgrade... LynxOS-178 powers Rockwell Collins next-generation avionics... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 Ben Ames	Three teams compete to build NOAA climate satellite The next-generation GOES-R satellites will collect 100 times more data and scan the Earth three- to-five times faster than previous systems.
IEEE Spectrum April 2010 Sigrid Close	Shooting Stars Can Shoot Down Satellites We don't know enough about meteoroids
National Defense September 2010 Grace V. Jean	Industry Sees Growing Market For Personal Tracking Devices Troops in combat zones, workers in remote areas, hikers and mountain climbers are an emerging market for providers of two-way tracking devices.
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson	Taking Out the Trash: What Can Be Done About Space Debris? What goes up doesn't necessarily come down when it comes to manmade objects orbiting the planet.
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National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Satellite Company Claims It Can Prevent Weather Data Gap Executives at PlanetIQ, a joint venture by several space companies, say they can solve the problem by launching a constellation of 12 low-earth orbit satellites that use a method called GPS radio occultation.
Scientific American August 2007 Jim Bell	Have Brain, Must Travel Although astronaut missions are much more expensive and risky than robotic craft, they are absolutely critical to the success of our exploration program.
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Science News February 28, 2009	Science Past For February 28, 1959 The United States has launched into orbit the first baby weather station in space. It was hurled into its earth-circling path at 10:55 a.m., Feb. 17, and its predicted lifetime is several decades.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Stephen Barlas	Troubled Weather Satellite Program Cost overruns and project delays have led to a cloudy forecast for the United States' new polar-orbiting weather satellites. The problems with the polar satellites are a major concern for the whole enterprise of monitoring Earth from outer space.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John Keller	Aftermarket Parts a Promising Business for Rad-Hard Suppliers Although some worry about how a potential slowdown in big-program spending might influence electronics and electro-optics suppliers, the emerging delays and budget cutbacks in civil and defense space programs are enhancing the market for obsolescent electronic components that are radiation hardened.
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean	Remotely Piloted Aircraft Fuel Demand for Satellite Bandwidth The communications-hungry drones consume large amounts of bandwidth to pipe battlefield video feeds and other sensor data back to intelligence centers and to forces on the ground.
The Motley Fool July 21, 2005 Rich Smith	Dueling Fools: Sirius Bear When you're managing a public company, it's not just prudent to insure your business assets. It's your fiduciary duty to protect your shareholders' investment by insuring the three satellites on which your business depends.
Popular Mechanics February 2009 Roxana Tiron	As Satellite Program Fails, New Plans Arise to Take its Place The Pentagon needs quick ways to get small satellites into space to fill a shortfall in battlefield communication.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Export Rules Under Fire for Eroding U.S. Space Industry Restrictions on exports of U.S. space technology have spurred a global demand for products made outside the United States.
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 David Schneider	Iridium Will Host Science Payloads New satellites will give space and wattage for Earth-sensing experiments.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2011 Andrew Sullivan	Rising Star Buy: Integral Systems The leading satellite control company goes on sale.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Sandra Upson	U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist.
National Defense February 2016 Stew Magnuson	New Generation of Commercial Satellites to Benefit Military Commercial satellite communications providers are in the process of launching a new generation of high-capacity spacecraft that will be a boon for their military customers.
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders' gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications.
Popular Mechanics January 2008 Erik Sofge	Space-Based Solar Power Beams Become Next Energy Frontier The idea of using satellites to beam solar power down from space is nothing new, but cost has limited it from coming to fruition.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge.
Popular Mechanics July 2009 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Collision Course: The Need for Better Space Junk Regulations Space is getting crowded, and the problem urgently needs attention from all spacefaring nations, lest we find ourselves earthbound under a shroud of orbiting trash.