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13 Apr 2010, 5:07 am by Jeff Foust
“We need clear goals, milestones and dates, the building blocks and metrics of a concrete commitment to human spaceflight beyond low earth orbit. [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 5:45 pm by Jeff Foust
Mo Brooks (R-AL) told the Huntsville Times that while commercial crew is one way to get American astronauts to orbit, the Space Launch System (SLS) “is more important for long-term access and national security,” according to the report. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 7:55 pm by Jeff Foust
”) They state that while they support the development of commercial cargo and crew capabilities, any funding appropriated for those programs “should be given to first providing the funding needed for the proposed Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program… and that this need should be prioritized over commercial crew capability funding at this time. [read post]
3 May 2012, 4:13 am by Jeff Foust
He cited last week’s announcement of Planetary Resources, the company that seeks to mine asteroids, as well as Space Adventures’ circumlunar mission project and Virgin Galactic (which he called a “low Earth orbit project”; it’s actually, for now, suborbital), as well as the upcoming SpaceX cargo demonstration mission to the ISS. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 3:20 am by Jeff Foust
While the reports indicated that SRBs will be used for initial launches, there will be a competition between SRBs and a liquid-propellant booster built by Teledyne Brown and powered by a variant of Aerojet’s AJ-26 engine (itself based on Russian NK-33 engines), at least for the “evolved” beyond Earth orbit SLS version. [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 7:40 am by Ilya Somin
The 7 percent figure pales in comparison with the 25 percent who don’t know the earth orbits the sun, the 66 percent who can’t name the three branches of government, and – my personal favorite – the 80 percent who support mandatory labeling of food containing DNA. [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]
7 Oct 2010, 11:43 am by Eric Schweibenz
Louis, Missouri G-Techt Global Corporation, of Atlanta, Georgia Frontier Lighting, Inc. of Clearwater, Florida The Designers Edge, Inc. of Bellevue, Washington Orbit Industries, Inc. of Los Angeles, California Ready Wholesale Electric and Lighting, Inc., d/b/a Ready Wholesale Electric Suppply of Reseda, California Sutherland Lumber Company of Kansas City, LLC, d/b/a Sutherlands of Kansas City, Missouri W.E. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 6:25 am
The result included a number of satellites failing in orbit, along with expensive fixes and launch delays, according to court documents. [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 3:30 am by Jeff Foust
“This new approach in getting our crews and cargo into orbit will create good jobs and expand opportunities for our American economy,” he said in the statement. [read post]
27 Dec 2006, 9:42 pm
, Red Orbit/Bloomberg, December 15, 2006 Related Web Resource: Morgan Stanley [read post]
17 May 2007, 5:45 am
Comstock, some market forecasts by Beth King of Lockheed Martin (covering GSO launch demand) and John Sloan of FAA/AST (covering nongeosynchronous orbits), a talk on the Personal Spaceflight Federation by Bretton Alexander, and working group reports by Janice Sadler (XL Insurance), Michael S. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 1:24 pm by PJ Blount
GAO-10-885T, July 14 Periodicals Orbital Debris Quarterly News (vol. 14, Issue 3) Blogs A quick review of the Senate NASA authorization bill – Space Politics NSC Gets NRO Spy Charter – DoD Buzz Proposed commercial space amendments to NASA authorization – Space Politics Space Coast leaders attack Nelson NASA bill – The Write Stuff Amendment offered to boost tech funding cut by authorization draft – RLV and Space Transport News An FBO’s Liability for… [read post]
9 May 2024, 8:55 am by Lawrence Solum
This Article takes insurance against speech-tort liability out of the shadows, bringing First Amendment theory and doctrine into the orbit of thinking about liability insurance and its operation in practice. [read post]
13 Apr 2013, 7:03 am by Jeff Foust
There’s no mention in her statement about how to fund an acceleration of those capabilities, and also no mention of commercial crew, which could return orbital human spaceflight capabilities to NASA (albeit on vehicles owned and perhaps operated by American companies) in 2017, under NASA’s current schedules. [read post]
11 May 2009, 9:04 pm
The gist of that discussion was that, while a reasonable argument can be made that VARA doesn't prevent the removal of a site-specific work, there's no reason to completely exclude site-specific works from VARA's orbit. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 1:01 pm by PJ Blount
” “Intelsat, with over 50 satellites in orbit around the world, is often the enabler of the first communications links re-established following a natural disaster. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 10:04 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Many Russian politicians, as well as ordinary citizens, have never been fully reconciled to Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and feel that the country belongs in Russia’s political and economic orbit. [read post]