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AirGuide Business, Feb 18, 2008

Lockheed Martin

The U.S. satellite to be shoot down, known as USA-193, was built by Lockheed Martin and conked out shortly after launch in December 2006. It contains about 1,000 pounds of frozen hydrazine, a hazardous propellant stored in metal tanks, and government officials and experts say the tanks could survive re-entry into the atmosphere. When China blasted one of its orbiting weather satellites out of the heavens Jan. 11, 2007, it prompted criticism and created an estimated 800 debris fragments - many of which have to be continually tracked. He said a Navy missile known as Standard Missile 3, designed to hit ballistic missiles, would be fired in an attempt to intercept the satellite at an altitude of about 150 thousand feet, just prior to it re-entering Earth's atmosphere. It would be "next to impossible" to hit the satellite after that because of atmospheric disturbances, Cartwright said. Feb 14, 2008

Raytheon

Raytheon Wins $75 Million Air Force Satellite Communications Contract. Raytheon Company has won the U.S. Air Force's competition to upgrade a satellite communications system that provides protected communications to warfighters around the world. The contract, valued in excess of $75 million, is for development and production of the Minuteman Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network program upgrade, or MMPU. Raytheon began work on the current MMP solution for the Air Force in 1999 as part of a study contract. Feb 11, 2008

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