Headlines of: Friday 9 December, 2005
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Fri Dec 9th, 2005 | space.com

The public space travel company, Virgin Galactic, may have identified a new departure point for flying people to the suborbital heights: New Mexico.
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Fri Dec 9th, 2005 | aimpoints.hq.af.mil

Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $149-million contract Thursday to build a prototype unmanned airship about 17 times the size of a Goodyear blimp that would hover about 60,000 feet above the Earth.
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Fri Dec 9th, 2005 | primezone.com

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 9, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully completed a simulated exercise that demonstrated the simultaneous control of four X-47B unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations.
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Fri Dec 9th, 2005 | us.rediff.com

In a step up of service-to-service engagement, India and the United States will conduct the biggest-ever army level exercises near Ranikhet in Uttaranchal in January, as American officials on Friday indicated that Washington was working to open doors to high-technology transfers.