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 Lockheed Martin To Develop New Missile Defense System Sunnyvale - Jan 08, 2004 
Lockheed Martin has won a contract from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop the first system capable of destroying multiple ballistic missile threats and decoys with a single launch. The system will carry multiple small kill vehicles that will destroy missiles and decoys by colliding with them in space. The eight-year contract is valued at approximately $760 million with an initial 11-month contract valued at $27 million. |
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The Bright Side of Beagle
Sydney - Jan 07, 2004The Monty Python song "always look on the bright side of life" comes to mind as we contemplate the apparent loss of the Beagle 2 Mars lander. By now, repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft have failed, and it seems reasonable to conclude that we will never hear from it. US Wants Taiwan To Bolster Intelligence Gathering: Jane's 
Taipei (AFP) Jan 08, 2004The United States is pressing Taiwan to procure two intelligence-gathering devices to correct an intelligence "blind spot" over the activities of China's army, the authoritative Jane's Defense Weekly (JDW) says. The facilities include a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite and a signals intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft, it says in an article to be published on January 14. |
Ithaca - Jan 07, 2004The first two-way trip to an asteroid is underway. Launched May 8, 2003 from the Uchinoura Launch Center at Kagoshima on Kyushu Island, Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is on its way to intercept and collect samples from asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Space In Our Lives Competition 
Paris (ESA) Jan 07, 2004What difference does space make to our lives and what changes will it bring about in the future? These are two of the questions that Eurisy and UNESCO are asking young people to consider in an international essay competition called "Space in our lives". |
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