The U.S. Air Force plans to divide the third batch of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) missions as evenly as possible between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, an Air Force official said.
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European Commission Unveils Ambitious Space Spending Plan
The European Commission has proposed spending more than $5 billion on space- and security-related programs between 2007 and 2013 as part of a major focus on research, but whether that plan will be accepted by European Union (EU) governments is in question, according to government and industry officials.
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Questions Surround Private-Sector Role in GEOSS Effort
Operators of commercial imaging satellites are supportive of an international effort to boost coordination in Earth observation but cannot be expected to donate services free of charge, industry officials said.
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Unsteady Government Orders, Weak Dollar Slow European Space Industry Recovery
The French space industry increased its sales by 6 percent in 2004, to 2.9 billion euros ($3.7 billion), but remains in a fragile condition because of the lack of sustained government contracts and the continued weakness of the U.S. dollar relative to the euro, the French aerospace industries association, GIFAS, said.
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Creating a Geospatial Intelligence Cadre
Much attention has been focused on the space and technology workforce shortage and the need to attract young talent to the community. For at least one sector of that group — geospatial intelligence — the issue is not just one of quantity, but of quality. The geospatial intelligence community needs a defined path that will lead to the development of an educated and highly qualified talent pool. The newly formed U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has a structure in place to do just that.
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Lord: Acquistion System Mending, Not Broken
The U.S. Air Force’s top uniformed space official issued a strong rebuke to those who have criticized the service’s space acquisition system as “broken,” and said that troubled satellite programs are on the road to recovery.
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Nuclear Reactors Vie for Role on NASA’s Space Exploration Plans
A s NASA begins to sketch plans for sending humans to the Moon and on to Mars, the U.S. space agency is confronting important questions about the role that nuclear systems should play in its space exploration strategy.
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Heavy-Lift Competitors Find Common Ground
Officials with two U.S. companies that support competing solutions to NASA’s future heavy-lift launcher agree on one thing: building a brand-new vehicle based on advanced technology is not the way to go.
