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20 May 2012, 10:58 am by Lovechilde
  The fact that I couldn't tells you what Junction Jack or Orbit look like tells you what you need to know. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 6:00 am by Jennifer González
” A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a GPS III-5 satellite into orbit launches from LC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., June 17, 2021. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 9:30 pm by Gaurav Sen
” Hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk now orbit our planet—some of them as large as a school bus. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 2:51 pm by Eric E. Johnson
Half the reason to send real people up into orbit is to have heroes. [read post]
19 Aug 2013, 8:57 am by Gene Quinn
., of Shanghai, China (“ELE”); Orbit Industries, Inc., of Los Angeles, California (“Orbit”); American Electric Depot Inc., of Fresh Meadows, New York (“AED”); and Shanghai Jia AO Electrical Co. [read post]
15 Dec 2013, 12:37 pm by Jeff Foust
” One area that will be closely watched will be changes to the section of the draft Category XV rule that kept “man-rated sub-orbital, orbital, lunar, interplanetary or habitat” spacecraft on the USML. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 4:11 am by Jeff Foust
For example, as others have noted, on-orbit propellant depots could eliminate the need for an Ares 5-class vehicle entirely since propellant could be launched by smaller vehicles and transferred to a spacecraft headed beyond Earth orbit, rather than launched together with the spacecraft on a single HLV. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 5:53 am by Jeff Foust
Garver instead scanned through the agenda of the three-day conference, using the topics of sessions ranging from orbital and suborbital commercial spaceflight to public-private partnerships to discuss a number of relevant issues, including the roles of the public and private sectors in space going forward. [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 9:01 am by Dave Wieneke
Hypersonic Scramjets  present a way for orbital vehicles to reach speeds above Mach five using reusable atmospheric engines. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 10:38 am by Glenn Reynolds
Additionally, water-rich NEAs will serve as “stepping stones” for deep space exploration, providing space-sourced fuel and water to orbiting depots. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 5:11 am by Jeff Foust
“Suborbital puts us on a sustainable step-by-step path to build an industry that evolves to low cost access to orbit,” she said. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 3:33 am
Would it be in the interest of the emerging commercial orbital crew transportation industry to have to be reliant on the government as its primary/sole customer at this stage in its development? [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 2:50 am by Jeff Foust
The funding will be used to start or accelerate several missions identified in the last Earth sciences decadal survey in 2007; there’s also funding for a reflight of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory lost in a launch failure last year. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 7:39 am by Jennifer González
If they did, Sputnik–and Yuri Gagarin–would have violated the sovereignty of many nations by orbiting the Earth, in the same manner as the United States would have when Alan Shepard orbited the Earth less than a year later. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 12:41 pm by Jeff Foust
(Going perhaps a little overboard, MacKinnon worried about China “as it plans lunar colonies, while having unimpeded access to our strategic assets in low and geosynchronous orbit. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 11:49 am by Jeff Foust
Another issue, Zulkosky said, would be the issue of on-orbit authority. [read post]
30 Oct 2013, 9:53 am by Jeff Foust
Of course, given the debris-filled state of low Earth orbit by the movie’s end, she might have to wait a long time for such a flight. [read post]
19 May 2013, 10:29 am by Jeff Foust
They bought off on a program to get American astronauts to low Earth orbit and Station as quickly as possible and as affordably as possible. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 8:18 pm by David Oliver
Admitting that the plaintiff's exposure to benzene at my client's facility was considerably less than his EPA and OSHA estimated background dose the plaintiff's expert opined that "naturally occurring benzene has a different electron resonance orbit than synthetic benzene" and that only man-made benzene had the toxic electron resonance orbit. [read post]
30 Dec 2015, 9:30 pm by James Rathz
Only the Russian and Chinese governments are currently operating space programs that send humans into orbit, and the Russian government plans to restart its space tourism program in 2018. [read post]