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Date: Mar 26 13:07 2010

Athena Launch Vehicle	Permalink

Lockheed Martin and ATK Announce 2nd Generation Athena Launch Vehicles Lockheed Martin Corporation and Alliant Techsystems, have entered into a strategic teaming agreement to offer launch services utilising upgraded and modernised Athena rockets. These vehicles, based on the flight-proven Athena I and II, are designed to provide reliable access to space for small payloads to a wide range of orbits. Lockheed Martin will provide mission management, payload integration, and launch operations, and ATK will provide integrated vehicle propulsion, launch vehicle structures, booster integration and launch site operations. Read more Aerospace firms team up to revive Athena rocket Two aerospace firms will revive a rocket capable of carrying small satellites to space, but officials say blastoffs from Vandenberg Air Force Base depend on future customers' needs. Lockheed Martin Corp. and Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) announced Thursday that they have teamed together to resurrect the Athena rocket, which debuted at Vandenberg in 1995 and has flown seven times from three states. Read more __________________

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Date: Mar 25 17:44 2010

Alliant Techsystems Inc.	Permalink

Alliant, Lockheed Team for Smaller Satellite Launches Alliant Techsystems Inc. is looking to forge two new partnerships that will help it expand into new markets as it seeks to keep up with shifts in U.S. military and civilian space programs. Read more __________________

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