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2 Sep 2014, 11:57 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
, Re-entry and Terminal Guidance for Vertical-Landing TSTO (Two-Stage to Orbit), ]SpaceX is represented by Heidi L. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 7:04 am
The book gets a positive feedback: “Chapters from practitioners, administrators, academics and the business world give this work a degree of relevance and immediacy and show how the complex and initially puzzling interplay of law and practice in China and the economies within her orbit can be depicted and understood. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 9:48 am
Chapters from practitioners, administrators, academics and the business world give this work a degree of relevance and immediacy and show how the complex and initially puzzling interplay of law and practice in China and the economies within her orbit can be depicted and understood".This is how the publishers describe it, in part:"This book provides a comprehensive introduction to patent policy, law and practice in Greater China [which for these purposes includes Taiwan, Hong Kong… [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 11:18 am by Dave Maass
Paglen's groundbreaking projects exposing government secrecy have included documenting U.S. government drone flights, using high-end optical systems to photograph top-secret governmental sites, and tracking classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit. [read post]
6 Aug 2014, 10:43 am by Jeff Foust
(Dogleg maneuvers can enable additional orbits, although at a cost in terms of performance.) [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 10:08 am
You cannot simply iterate your way into orbit. [read post]
3 Aug 2014, 6:46 am by Jeff Foust
Instead, he advocated human missions to NEAs in “native” (that is, not redirected) orbits. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 6:00 pm by Ars Staff
Adams was referring to Citizen Lab, the watchdog group Deibert founded over a decade ago at the University of Toronto that's now orbited by a globe-spanning network of hackers, lawyers, and human rights advocates. [read post]
24 Jul 2014, 6:47 am by Jeff Foust
The GAO was also critical of plans not to compete a higher-performance upper stage for SLS, saying NASA’s rationale that Boeing won a competitive Constellation contract in 2007 didn’t reflect changes in the industry since then, including work by SpaceX and Orbital Sciences. [read post]
23 Jul 2014, 9:18 am by Tara Hofbauer
Today, the Air Force is launching two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites into orbit around the Earth, in order to monitor any “nefarious capability” of other countries in space. [read post]
22 Jul 2014, 9:07 am by Jeff Foust
Some of Green’s charts earlier in the presentation mentioned Cassini’s plans to orbit closer to Saturn, known as “proximal orbits,” assuming the mission continues. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 12:38 pm by Jeff Foust
NASA has been studying concepts for a Europa orbiter mission as well as a “Clipper” that would perform multiple flybys of Europa, but has made no decision yet on what concept to pursue, or when it would fly. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 4:56 am by Jeff Foust
However, development of Falcon 9 and Dragon was supported, but not exclusively funded, by NASA through the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, using Space Act Agreements versus conventional contracts. [read post]
12 Jul 2014, 8:13 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
 After ten years in orbit, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite has been in orbit sufficiently long to show that people in major U.S. cities are breathing less nitrogen dioxide – a yellow-brown gas that can cause respiratory problems…Nitrogen dioxide is one of the six common pollutants regulated by the U.S. [read post]
9 Jul 2014, 11:56 am by Cyrus Farivar
Detective Mark Nell, an NYPD spokesman, told Ars that a police helicopter was on routine patrol near the George Washington Bridge in the northwestern part of Manhattan when the pilot spotted the drone orbiting above the bridge. [read post]
9 Jul 2014, 10:36 am
"William Orbit, who produced the track, said that leaking the track was 'unkind.'" [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 7:38 am by Jeff Foust
One area where they sought but did not win change was in human spaceflight: crewed vehicles, both suborbital and orbital, will remain on the US Munitions List (USML) and thus under the jurisdiction of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 8:42 am by WIMS
<> NASA To Launch First CO2 Observing Satellite - Scheduled for launch July 1, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) will be NASA's first dedicated Earth remote sensing satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide from Space. [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 6:41 pm by Tom Smith
The complete system is scheduled for a an unmanned lunar-orbit test in 2017. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 11:27 am by Jeff Foust
Tuesday’s 90-minute hearing by the House Science Committee on the final report National Research Council’s Committee on Human Spaceflight broke little new ground about the report or its conclusions about where, why, and how humans should explore space beyond Earth orbit. [read post]