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4 Feb 2013, 11:00 am by Jon Brodkin
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]
3 Feb 2013, 7:37 am by Jeff Foust
He throws in calls for NASA efforts to clean up orbital debris and study near Earth objects. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 4:18 am by Jeff Foust
Giving the NASA planetary program a flat budget of $1.5 billion a year for 2013 and beyond would, the organizations argue, allow NASA to perform both the 2020 Mars rover mission as well as a Europa orbiter mission (the second-ranked large-scale mission in the decadal report), and would allow NASA to increase the tempo of smaller Discovery and New Frontiers missions to levels recommended in the report. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 3:33 am by Jeff Foust
“Just as the government does not design or build automobiles, ships, trains or airplanes, NASA should not be designing, building or launching rockets to go to low Earth orbit,” they argue. [read post]
27 Jan 2013, 8:33 am by Jeff Foust
” In fact, last year two American spacecraft—SpaceX Dragon cargo vehicles—visited the station, and by July at least one more Dragon, plus likely the first Cygnus cargo vehicle from Orbital Sciences, will have visited the ISS. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 1:41 pm by Epstein Becker Green
 Consequently, the Court ruled conclusively that the Board’s order in the underlying case was “outside the orbit of the authority of the Board because the Board had no authority to issue any order [because] it had no quorum,” stating that the “lack of quorum raise questions that go to the very power of the Board to act and implicate[s] fundamental separation of powers concerns. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 1:41 pm by Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
  Consequently, the Court ruled conclusively that the Board’s order in the underlying case was “outside the orbit of the authority of the Board because the Board had no authority to issue any order [because] it had no quorum,” stating that the “lack of quorum raise questions that go to the very power of the Board to act and implicate[s] fundamental separation of powers concerns. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 2:35 pm by Swaraj Paul Barooah
Laetitia Aymonin, Sales Director, Asia-Pacific, Questel will take you through various features, enhancement of Orbit.2. [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 1:28 am by Mathews P. George
Laetitia Aymonin, Sales Director, Asia-Pacific, Questel will take you through various features, enhancement of Orbit.2. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 4:04 pm by Alfred Brophy
Engs was so much more important to his students and those of us who came within his orbit than a catalog his scholarship would convey, I would like to mention several of his path-breaking books were Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Va., 1861-1890 and Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited; Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 3:39 am by Swaraj Paul Barooah
Laetitia Aymonin, Sales Director, Asia-Pacific, Questel will take you through various features, enhancement of Orbit.2. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 4:45 pm by Steve Schultze
I was fortunate to occasionally enter Aaron’s orbit. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 12:55 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
The Death Star, officially called the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, is a piece of fiction (so far) which appeared in the Star Wars movies. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 4:41 am by Benjamin Wittes
Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that’s helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 6:33 am by Jeff Foust
” Rohrabacher covered some familiar ground later in his talk, supporting increased commercialization and international partnerships as ways for NASA to be more efficient, and promoting concepts such as orbital debris cleanup, planetary defense, and propellant depots. [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 10:34 am by Matt Johnston
Private companies building new spaceships to soar through orbital and suborbital space are looking forward to an action-packed year in 2013, with new flight tests, launches, wind tunnel tests and rocket technology trials all planned during the new year. [read post]
30 Dec 2012, 11:29 pm by Mitchell Lazarus
 Antennas on board the planes will have to maintain a sufficiently accurate bead on the satellite so to avoid causing interference to adjacent satellites in orbit. [read post]
30 Dec 2012, 10:27 pm by Jeff Gamso
He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. [read post]
30 Dec 2012, 8:46 am by Jeff Foust
There are commercially licensed launches coming up in early 2013, including the first test launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket in February and the next SpaceX Falcon 9 cargo mission to the ISS in late February or early March. [read post]