New DARPA scramjet-drone contract award
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'Hypersonic tech vehicles' for test in 2009 DARPA*, the wacky Pentagon research bureau where it's always white-coat-and-propellor-hat Friday, has doled out $6m (as part of a $40m "increment" to an earlier "other transaction") to US aerospace colossus Lockheed. The payment is in support of the renewed US military hypersonic-plane programme, variously known as "Falcon" or "Blackswift".â¦
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Lockheed Martin Corp.  LMT.N has  received two U.S. Air Force contracts totaling $716 million to  continue work on its F/A-22 Raptor fighter jet, designed to be  the world's most capable, amid reports the $72 billion program  may be scaled back sharply, the company said Friday.
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The local arm of defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $45-million contract with the US government to complete a prototype designed to protect commercial airplanes from ground-based shoulder-fired missiles.
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NASA has awarded a $330.6 million contract to the aerospace company Lockheed Martin to design and build a robot spaceship to carry replacement parts to the Hubble Space Telescope to keep it operating for another five to seven years.
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DARPA shocks with for non-black colour scheme Flight tests of a revolutionary new robot helicopter have begun, according to the maker, US Aerospace giant Boeing.â¦
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The Ministry of Defence awards a Â£124m project to develop an unmanned aircraft to BAE Systems.
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Unmanned aircraft with hydrogen engine does well in preliminary tests.
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NASA&#39;s unmanned X-43A plane is the latest product of its research program into flight at more than five times the speed of sound.
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Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) today announced that it has been  awarded a $27 million contract for two Minotaur IV launch vehicles by  the U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles Systems (SMC) Space Development  and Test Wing (SDTW).
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Northrop Grumman and Boeing said yesterday they will bid as a team to compete for NASA&#39;s planned manned and robotic space-exploration program.
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Lockheed Martin Corp.  has won a contract modification worth $1 billion to build 23 more F-22 fighter aircraft plus one test aircraft, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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NASA has awarded a   multibillion-dollar contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT.N   to design, develop and test a manned spaceship to replace aging   U.S. space shuttles, two congressional sources familiar with   the decision told Reuters on Thursday.
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The U.S. space agency has awarded a contract to Computer Sciences Corp. for engineering services at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.  The National Aeronautics and Space Agency contract carries an estimated value of $44 million, the California company said Thursday in a news release.
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Boeing Co.  has been awarded an 11-year, $2.02 billion contract for 242 wing sets for the Air Force's A-10 fleet designed to support ground troops, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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A partnership between The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporation has been created to compete for NASA&#39;s Crew Exploration Vehicle for Project Constellation, a planned
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The US space agency gives the contract to build its new spacecraft Orion to Lockheed Martin.
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MOJAVE, CALIF: Completing the first leg of a quest for a $10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday morning in a flight that had equal measures of white-knuckle moments and triumph.