Kratos will continue to thrive since its products are essential to the Pentagon's core programs.
NASA's Van Allen space probes made the finding.
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Orbital Sciences Corp. has finished building and testing the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, which after nearly 15 years of planning and replanning must clear only one more review before being shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., where it is scheduled to launch Feb. 11.
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has discovered a new layer of the solar system that scientists had not known was there.
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Confirming decades of suspicion, a NASA spacecraft has spotted vast deposits of water ice on the planet closest to the sun.
The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics said that it has delivered a $20 million remote sensing instrument package to Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver for integration with a NASA-funded Mars orbiter launching late next year.
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A Russian Soyuz space capsule made a rare nighttime landing in the frigid steppes of Kazakhstan Nov. 19, returning three astronauts to Earth after a four-month visit to the international space station.
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A robotic Russian cargo spacecraft made a delivery to the international space station.
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With the help of satellite instruments and airborne sensors, NASA scientists are continuing to uncover clues to explain the complex role atmospheric aerosols play in global climate change.
SEATTLE — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut landed safely Sept. 16, wrapping up a four-month mission to the international space station.
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WASHINGTON — With an eye toward buying its first astronaut taxi services by 2017, NASA unveiled details Aug. 8 about a safety certification process that will be conducted in parallel with the industry-led development of new crewed space transportation systems.
![Spacecraft Glitch Could Delay News of Mars Rover’s Landing]()
WASHINGTON — NASA is two weeks away from landing a car-size rover on Mars, but mission managers might have to wait a little longer than anticipated to learn whether the challenging touchdown succeeds or not.
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NEW YORK — NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft, an 11-year-old orbiter circling the red planet, has recovered from a glitch that stalled the probe's science operations at the beginning of June.
The core structure for the fourth missile-warning satellite Lockheed Martin is building for the U.S. Air Force’s Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), known as GEO-4, has been delivered to a Lockheed facility in Mississippi where it will be outfitted with its propulsion system, the company announced in a May 24 release.
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The two Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) spacecraft slated to launch in August aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket arrived May 1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin a two-year mission to study the extremes of space weather.
