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19 Sep 2013, 6:12 am by Jeff Foust
The Antares rocket that lifted off Wednesday carrying Orbital’s first Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the ISS might be the biggest booster to launch from Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, but arguably the spaceport’s biggest booster is Sen. [read post]
30 Aug 2009, 8:02 pm
Rehberg reportedly underwent a three hour surgery to repair a broken ankle and fractures in left eye orbit. [read post]
1 Jan 2017, 8:20 pm by Jon Katz
It is good to remember that we are part of a huge solar system that is part of a much larger galaxy, and that somehow the earth stays on orbit after these billions of years, neither closer to the sun to get us too hot nor farther from the sun to get us too cold. [read post]
18 May 2010, 3:58 am by Jeff Foust
One of the most documented ironies of the new plan for NASA unveiled by the White House in February is the clash of ideologies: a president widely regarded as a liberal (or even by some as a socialist) is supporting a plan to turn over to the private sector one aspect of NASA—transport of astronauts to low Earth orbit—that has previously always been done by the government. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 8:23 pm by Jeff Foust
The crisis in US-Russian space relations may be the current top story in space policy, but it’s not preventing debates about over topics, notably, where humans should go beyond Earth orbit. [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 10:04 am by Jeff Foust
” However, exploration beyond Earth orbit should be done by NASA, he added. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 8:00 am by Robert Kreisman
She had fallen and suffered a subdural hematoma with midline shift, a C6 fracture, and an orbital fracture. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 5:00 am by Gene Takagi
Notable Events of the Week: SpaceX successfully launched the world’s most powerful rocket, Falcon Heavy, into space on its way to orbit the Sun. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 11:40 am by P.J. Blount
she stated that the FAA has the authority to license launches and reentry but does not have jurisdiction over on orbit activities. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 6:07 am by Jeff Foust
Congressmen Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Bill Posey (R-FL) introduced HR 3038, the Suborbital and Orbital Advancement and Regulatory Streamlining (SOARS) Act. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 12:12 pm
It deals primarily with the Mercury missions which involved Earth orbits--not moon landings. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 3:30 am by James Grimmelmann
” There is also a Princeton School, which orbits around the computer scientist Ed Felten, and which is committed to technical rigor, clear exposition, social impact, and creative problem-solving. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 6:34 am by Miller & Falkner
While she was in the kitchen getting a drink for Jason, the Great Dane attacked the toddler, biting the toddler in the face and causing lacerations to Jason's eye, a fractured orbital bone, and a torn tear duct. [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 9:33 am
”  It takes the hook of the LCROSS mission last week to shift gears from explosions on the Moon to … orbital war on satellites. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 5:30 am by Public Employment Law Press
 Although "[g]enerally, a school cannot be held liable for injuries that occur off school property and beyond the orbit of its authority," the Appellate Division's decision notes that a school's duty to its students continues and is breached if the student is released without further supervision into "a forseeably hazardous setting it had a hand in creating. [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 7:01 am
  Handsets have shrunk as has the cost of low earth orbiting (“LEO”) satellite networks. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 4:35 pm
Most injuries that resulted in loss of eyesight were orbital blow out fractures and periorbital fractures. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 5:30 am by Public Employment Law Press
 Although "[g]enerally, a school cannot be held liable for injuries that occur off school property and beyond the orbit of its authority," the Appellate Division's decision notes that a school's duty to its students continues and is breached if the student is released without further supervision into "a forseeably hazardous setting it had a hand in creating. [read post]
19 Jan 2007, 7:45 pm
Apart from China's sudden urge to blast apart its Feng Yun or "wind and cloud" spacecraft resulting in a waste of a perfectly good weather satellite and triggering worries about a space arms race, the cloud of orbital debris caused by the intentional explosion raises serious concern. [read post]