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ATK To Ship The Operationally Responsive Space-1 BusMinneapolis MN (SPX) Feb 19, 2010 Alliant Techsystems marks a major milestone this week as it prepares to conduct final testing and ship the Operational Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) satellite bus, after building it in just 16 months. The bus will be shipped to Goodrich Corporation for integration of the payload in preparation for launch later this year. ORS-1 is part of the United States Department of Defense's (DoD) ORS program that focuses on using small satellites and launch vehicles to provide innovative sensor technologies to t ... read more |
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Ankara, Turkey (UPI) Feb 18, 2009 Turkey recently removed European missile maker MBDA from its blacklist after a years-long legal dispute ended amicably. "From our point of view, the dispute has been resolved and there are no legal or practical barriers against the company from taking part in Turkish contracts," Murad Bayar, head of the Turkish Undersecretariat for Defense Industries, told the Turkish English-language n ... more  
Washington (AFP) Feb 17, 2010The United States is on track to pull out troops from Iraq regardless of the outcome of the upcoming elections, which could lead to a lengthy transition of power, the US ambassador said Wednesday. "Everything is on schedule for the reduction in our forces to around 50,000 by the end of August," US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill told reporters on a visit to Washington. "Our interest ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 17, 2010Coordinated cyberattacks launched from Europe and China breached computers at firms and government agencies worldwide in the past 18 months, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The Journal quoted computer security firm NetWitness as saying the attacks made mountains of data vulnerable to mining by hackers, although the damage had yet to be fully assessed. Information bared to hac ... more |
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Market bomb, US missiles kill 20 in PakistanIslamabad (AFP) Feb 18, 2010 A bomb attack and a US missile strike killed 20 people in northwest Pakistan Thursday as Islamabad raised fresh concerns about knock-on instability from a major US-led offensive in Afghanistan. The bomb exploded in a market controlled by Islamist militants in Khyber, which is part of a NATO supply route to troops in Afghanistan and has been branded an Al-Qaeda headquarters by Washington. A militant commander and 15 others were killed in the explosion in the village of Dars in the Upper Tirah val ... read more |
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