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30 Dec 2011, 9:07 am by Jeff Foust
However, she suggested that, at least for commercial orbital spaceflight, where NASA is likely to be a major customer, the industry might prefer that the moratorium expire. [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 9:58 am by Kevin
Airspace (Information Week)Spatial Data InfrastructurePublishing Public Sector Information (Australian Government Web Guide)GNSSBeijing Launches Its Own GPS Rival (The Wall Street Journal)LightSquared: GPS not entitled to special protection (The Hill)MiscellaneousCourt asks social media websites to scrap derogatory content by Feb 6 (Media Newsline)Scud watching from geostationary earth orbit (CyberSpaceWar.com) [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 1:01 pm
CRT™ saw action in the Steelers' helmets when James Harrison, their star All-Pro linebacker, was injured in a collision with a Houston Texans player and suffered an orbital fracture in his right eye socket. [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]
22 Dec 2011, 7:00 am by Todd Bennett
Professor Larson states the general rule that recreational or social activities are within the scope of employment when: (1) They occur on the employer’s premises during a lunch or recreation period as a regular incident of the employment; or (2) The employer, by expressly or impliedly requiring participation, or by making the activity part of the services of an employee, brings the activity within the orbit of the employment; or (3) The employer derives substantial direct benefit… [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 7:48 am by Philip Favro
  In so doing, the court sidestepped the firm’s proportionality argument, citing Orbit One v. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 7:22 am by Jeff Foust
In one passage, he endorsed the idea of turning over routine transportation to low Earth orbit of cargo and crews to the private sector. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 4:00 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
” One might reasonably conclude that nonviolent civil resistance clearly failed in this case, although it has been plausibly argued that the principle variables in determining the outcome were found in the orbit of “high politics,” the precise nature of the civil resistance possessing, therefore, little relevance to that outcome. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 2:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
A ring of dust and gas orbiting the star acts like a belt, cinching the expanding nebula into an "hourglass" shape. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 12:14 pm by Jay Pinkert
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14 Dec 2011, 12:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
As NASA continues plans to send humans to explore asteroids and other destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, a number of questions are being asked about how astronauts could live and work in space. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 8:03 pm by Glenn Reynolds
This is going to be real: a gigantic 385-foot wing span, 544-tonne plane powered by six 747 engines that will serve as a flying launch platform for 490,000 pound orbital rockets. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 4:29 pm by Tom Huddleston Jr.
A team of Paul Hastings lawyers helped the Intrepid Museum Foundation acquire Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise from NASA. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 4:26 am by Jeff Foust
“Ideally you would want to land them in the decade that you orbited,” he said, declining to provide a specific schedule given the uncertainties involved in planning such a mission at this time. [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 11:27 am by Jeff Foust
Instead, the agency’s goals, as outlined by President Obama in his April 2010 speech at KSC, include a human mission to orbit—not land on—Mars by the mid-2030s, with a landing to follow soon enough for Obama (who turned 50 in August) to “expect to be around to see it”. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 4:02 am by Jeff Foust
Orbital used to have two seats on the board, but is now down to one; that seat, currently held by what the Daily Press describes as “a very vocal Jeffrey Windland”, can’t be changed until MARS and Orbital amend their existing agreement about using the spaceport. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 2:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
The tilt of Mars' axis relative to its orbital plane can vary dramatically. [read post]