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Alliant Techsystems

ATK Awarded Comtract To Develop Multi-Stage Supersonic Target

Minneapolis MN (SPX) Sep 05, 2008 - Alliant Techsystems has announced that it has been awarded a $97 million contract for the design, development, integration, and test of the Multi-Stage Supersonic Target (MSST) by the...

Alliant wins Navy anti-missile test contract

Minnesota company says contract is a moving target. Eden Prairie-based Alliant Techsystems has been awarded a $97 million contract to develop an advanced supersonic missile that can test the effectiveness of the Navy's...

For MDA, the future is out there

By DAVID EBNER Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Page B1 VANCOUVER -- Early next year, 10,000 metres above Afghanistan, unmanned aerial vehicles carrying surveillance equipment designed by MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd....

First Hand Eyewitness, RNC Arrests

On Sunday, August 31, 2008, a group of people marched on the Xcel Energy Center, site of the 2008 RNC National Convention. We gather at 11:00 a.m. and march at 1:00 p.m. The march today is billed to be larger than the...

Sci/Tech briefs

Chips used to locate kidnapping victims As kidnapping rates in Mexico continue to soar, wealthy Mexicans are implanting chips into themselves so that satellites can locate them in case of kidnapping. The reason for this...

ATK to Host First AAR-47 Missile Warning Systems Conference at Its Clearwater, Fla. Facility

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Techsystems announced today that it will host an AAR- 47 Users Conference January 21 and 22, 2009 at its Clearwater, Fla. facility. The purpose of this conference...

Test rocket destroyed by NASA after launch

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Aug. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. space officials said a suborbital rocket was destroyed by safety officials shortly after liftoff Friday morning from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The rocket was destroyed by...

Suborbital Rocket Carrying NASA Experiments Crashes off Wallops Island

Credit: NASA TV. The HYBOLT and SOAREX missions launch aboard an ATK-ALV X-1 rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility early in the morning of Aug. 22, 2008. WASHINGTON — An Alliant Techsystems (ATK) ALV-X1 suborbital...

Aerospace Supplier Installs Advanced Computer Visualization System to Support Collaborative...

Alliant Techsystems Inc. is using center for virtual engineering of manufacturing and production systems for defense technology. Compiled By Adrienne Selko Aug. 22, 2008 -- Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK), an advanced weapon and...

The next big thing in rocket power

KRT) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Aug. 20--A 5-in-1 experiment on hypersonic flight and rocket design is scheduled to launch early Friday from Wallops Island, carrying NASA and Navy payloads. The Air Force's SR-71 Blackbird flew...