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10 Jun 2010, 7:46 am
Beginning in about 2000, the indictment alleges, Modanlo brokered an agreement between Polyot and a “customer in Iran” to construct and launch a small low-Earth-orbit satellite. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 2:39 am
In a letter that will go to the White House later this week, a group of congressmen is asking for changes in the White House proposal to create a program “that continues our elite astronaut corps, preserves an irreplaceable workforce, protects our defense industrial base and ensures that the U.S. will leave low-earth orbit within the decade. [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 12:00 pm
NASA Invites the Public to Picture Their "Face in Space" NASA is inviting members of the public to send electronic images of their faces into orbit aboard one of the final remaining space shuttle missions. [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 8:46 am
Langston with the blog faculty Source: Thales Cannes, June 9, 2010 – Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), one of the world’s leading satellite operators, announced today that it has selected Thales Alenia Space to build a 40-transponder Ku-band satellite enabling a 50% increase in capacity operated at its 21.5° East location in geostationary orbit. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 11:00 am
If this business plan unfolds as it is written — the company has two fully inflated test modules in orbit already — Bigelow will be buying 15 to 20 rocket launchings in 2017 and in each year after, providing ample business for the private companies that the Obama administration would like to finance for the transportation of astronauts into orbit — the so-called commercial crew initiative. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 9:33 am
Estimated Time per Response: 40 hours for the submission of a license application; 10 hours for the submission of a data protection plan; 5 hours for the submission of a plan describing how the licensee will comply with data collection restrictions; 3 hours for the submission of an operations plan for restricting collection or dissemination of imagery of Israeli territory; 3 hours for submission of a data flow diagram; 2 hours for the submission of satellite sub-systems drawings; 3 hours for the… [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 3:28 am
“I wish SpaceX continued success as they prepare for next month’s first-in-a-series of flight demonstrations for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation System (COTS) program,” Rep. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 6:27 am
In contrast to their often harsh assessment of the president’s plan for NASA in congressional hearings, the two were low key at the meeting: Grayson talked about the importance of America remaining the leader in human spaceflight, while Kosmas made a pitch for giving KSC one of the shuttle orbiters once retired. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 7:35 pm
ORBITAL BULLS-EYE: Shuttle successor succeeds in first test flight. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 2:03 pm
ORBIT ACHIEVED: Congratulations to SpaceX. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 1:51 pm
“Preparations are proceeding for the first NASA-sponsored test launch under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services project later this year. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 12:48 pm
[SpaceX has now confirmed they came within about one percent of both perigee and apogee on the orbit.]) [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 8:51 am
– California-based SpaceX has laid out a Friday timetable for the first test launch of its Falcon 9 rocket — and the first big test of President Barack Obama’s plan for human spaceflight… Obama’s commercial options Obama’s space plan calls for commercial providers such as SpaceX, as well as United Launch Alliance and Orbital Science Corp., to send crew as well as cargo to the space station once safety requirements are satisfied. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 8:36 am
However, in 2006, federal agencies restructured two key satellite acquisitions, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R). [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 7:56 am
Visualizing Excellence: As this diagram clearly shows, a "center of excellence" is a kind of nuclear explosion, closely orbited by things such as "techno-functional consulting. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 5:27 pm
A better question, perhaps, would be to ask if people if they believe the private sector should take a greater role, or, more specifically, if they believe the private sector should take on the responsibility of transporting NASA astronauts to orbit. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 5:00 am
— Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace. [read post]
29 May 2010, 6:53 am
” The one interesting, and relatively new, idea in his speech is that the first human mission beyond low Earth orbit might in fact be a return to Moon—or, rather, lunar orbit. [read post]
28 May 2010, 9:52 am
It has tested a two stage solid-propellant missile and placed a satellite into orbit using an indigenous launch vehicle. [read post]
26 May 2010, 7:05 pm
Bill Nelson (D-FL) officially announced he would try to seek one more flight for that orbiter. [read post]
