October 30, 2006

October 30, 2006

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Musical Chairs

By JOHN M. DOYLE

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Scouting Ahead

By AMY BUTLER

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Card Game

By DOUGLAS BARRIE

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Musical Chairs

WASHINGTON Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) is going to be out of a job next year, even if he wins re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives next week. That’s because his time is up as chairman of the House aviation subcommittee. When Republicans captured control of Congress in 1994, they instituted six-year term limits for all committee and subcommittee chairmen.

By JOHN M. DOYLE

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Scouting Ahead

Northrop Grumman looks for sponsors for early fielding

By AMY BUTLER

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Card Game

Britain and U.S. attempt to deal on JSF low-observable support

By DOUGLAS BARRIE

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Naval Nuptials

France closes in on carrier deal with U.K., cruise missile sub order. Thales-DCN merger imminent.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA

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Marte Looks to the Stars

MBDA completes Marte Mk. 2/S test program and ponders GPS among several options

By ANDY NATIVI,MICHAEL A. TAVERNA

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Shipping Forecast

Latest version of the Delilah family enters export fray

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA

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APL's Triple Play

Applied Physics Lab controllers reach for the Sun via the Moon, piloting third spacecraft by Venus

By CRAIG COVAULT

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DREAM T TEAMS

Burgeoning private spaceflight industry starting to draw capital, NASA interest

By FRANK MORRING, JR.

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Redefining Awesome!

CAPE CANAVERAL Saturn, with its ring system spanning 621,000 mi., is imaged from the NASA Cassini orbiter flying 1.3 million mi. above the planet as it eclipsed the Sun. Earth is visible (arrow) nearly 1 billion mi. away. For scale, the width of the entire Saturn ring system is 2.5 times greater than the distance from Earth to the Moon.

By CRAIG COVAULT

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Winds of War

Scrutiny of defense programs could shift, depending on who wins control of Congress

By JOHN M. DOYLE,MICHAEL BRUNO

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