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24 Apr 2009, 3:44 am
It was when we first left the planet that we came to realize its importance.Today, NASA maintains 15 Earth-observing satellites in orbit, with another 11 missions in development or under study. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 12:15 pm
The lawsuit alleged that TRW sold components known as “heterojunction bipolar transistors, “ used in intelligence-gathering satellites, which had known defects and contributed to a “critical failure” in a government satellite in orbit in 2001. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 8:00 am
Officials from that country claim a satellite was placed in orbit. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 4:21 am
In the largest qui tam settlement ever paid by a defense contractor, Northrop Grumman has agreed to pay $325 million to resolve allegations that its predecessor TRW Inc. violated the federal False Claims Act.The suit, originally filed by whistleblower Robert Ferro, alleged that the company provided and billed the government for defective parts that were integrated into satellites used by the National Reconnaisance Office.The qui tam lawsuit said that a government satellite "experienced critical… [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 6:25 am
The result included a number of satellites failing in orbit, along with expensive fixes and launch delays, according to court documents. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 10:55 am
  Similarly, it’s useful now to muster this ability when clients go on thirty-minute rants premised on views of the law derived from TV and views of reality derived from, as far as I can tell, orbital mind-control rays. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 2:26 pm
This past Tuesday, FDA issued new safety guidelines for companies that use peanut products, reported Red Orbit. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 9:09 am
Neff, major priorities of the Los Angeles Chapter will include addressing the industry's employment challenges brought on by the recession and attracting more media companies into the Council's orbit as part of the ongoing convergence between the technology and media sectors. [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 4:19 pm
  Apparently, planets that pass in front of a star can't themselves be seen, but they diminish the star's brightness enough that this amazing telescope will be able to determine their mass, location, orbits, etc. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 11:06 am
If all goes well, the rocket will lift off about 10:50 Friday evening on a journey that will eventually propel Kepler into orbit around the Sun. [read post]
27 Feb 2009, 3:33 pm
If you're a briefwriter who, for whatever reason, rarely gets the opportunity to present oral argument, take heart in this quotation by a Fifth Circuit legend:Oral argument, as such, is rarely, if ever, so essential to elemental fairness as to orbit to a constitutional apogee. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 11:39 am
A full understanding of why the earth orbits the sun (as a consequence of the way the solar system was formed) took another century after Galileo's time to develop. [read post]
15 Feb 2009, 9:34 am
After a corporate spin-off, such as when Kraft left the Philip Morris orbit, Catalent emerged from Cardinal Health, or Cendant broke itself into pieces, a spanking new law department enters the world (See my post of March 2, 2008: spin-off; and April 9, 2006: mentions Tyco, Cendant and Wendy's.). [read post]
14 Feb 2009, 3:34 am
It would be too easy to take a cheap shot and say that the Blazers should have picked him in the player draft rather than Greg Oden. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 12:02 pm
You don't often get pictures that show the increasing amount of junk that's floating around in orbit, however. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 6:50 pm
OOPS: ” Two big communications satellites collided in the first-ever crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space station. [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 7:38 am
Bob's glasses are much more rose-colored since he's come into the Obama orbit.... [read post]