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26 Jul 2012, 2:27 am
astroengine writes "When NASA's Kepler space telescope started finding planets at odd angles to their parent stars, scientists wondered if our solar system's tidy geometry, with the planets neatly orbiting around the sun's equator, was an exception to the rule. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 7:30 am
Then Clinton pulled him back into the orbit, in the hopes he would become the court historian. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 1:00 pm
These flights will provide a yearly, multi-instrument look at the behavior of the rapidly changing features of the Greenland and Antarctic ice.Data collected during IceBridge will help scientists bridge the gap in polar observations between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) -- in orbit since 2003 -- and ICESat-2, planned for late 2015. [read post]
18 Jul 2021, 1:40 pm
”) In what I believe is his only interview about the incident, Eveleth told me about his process, and we covered it here in a larger story about all the goings on in the private space industry and what is now possible in Low Earth Orbit. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 3:22 pm
(Of course, new space law aside, for nations worried about the space environment and those pesky "fragments," not blowing up old weather satellites in orbit might be a good way to start.) [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]
14 Jul 2010, 2:59 pm
The RRSW activities include mission coordination, design, development, procurement, assembly, integration, test, on-orbit support, launch support and ground system support. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 10:38 pm
The sentiment reflected what another person in the immediate Clinton orbit described as "shock" that Obama would send such a strong signal that he is not considering Clinton as his runningmate so soon. [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]
10 Sep 2010, 1:07 pm
Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, which markets the Atlas 5 to commercial customers, will launch GeoEye-2 into a sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. in late 2012. [read post]
9 Apr 2011, 2:01 pm
The online attacks have largely used the Anonymous tool of choice, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), to flood Sony's servers with enough information to create a distributed denial of service attack. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 10:54 am
Anything that's not in their own orbit. [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 7:45 am
In 2015, Western European intelligence agencies began picking up evidence of communications between the Russian government and people in Donald Trump’s orbit. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 7:11 am
The fixed-price contract, with options, calls for three 702HP commercial spacecraft with 89 Ka-band beams that will operate in geosynchronous orbit with flexible global coverage. [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 11:00 am
McCain was comparing Iran's recent launch of a monkey into orbit with the Iranian president's stated willingness to go into space. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 7:42 pm
The market would be primarily space tourism, satellites, commercial use of orbital space. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 10:00 am
During the 11-day mission, Discovery and its six crew members will deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2, to the orbiting laboratory. [read post]
2 Mar 2007, 12:09 pm
But it's also difficult to watch central and eastern Europe failing to make the safe docking with western Europe that was hoped for ten years ago, and slipping back into the orbit of an exploitative and illiberal Russia. [read post]
22 Jul 2021, 2:30 pm
Viasat sued the Federal Communications Commission in May and asked judges for a stay that would halt SpaceX's ongoing launches of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites that power Starlink Internet service. [read post]
18 May 2007, 3:24 pm
[Red Orbit] [read post]
