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1 Nov 2011, 3:29 am by Jeff Foust
It was all smiles yesterday morning at the Kennedy Space Center as officials from NASA, Boeing, and Space Florida, along with various elected officials, announced that Boeing would set up operations at KSC’s Orbiter Processing Facility 3 for the eventually assembly of its CST-100 commercial crew vehicles. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 11:00 am by Glenn Reynolds
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: De-Orbit Space Junk With High-Powered Lasers. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 12:41 pm by AdamSmith1776
No, the "con" that has sticking power, to me, are the twin stars orbiting each other of risk-aversion and control. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 2:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
EDT at NASA Kennedy's Orbiter Processing Facility-3 and will be carried live on NASA television. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 4:45 am by Jeff Foust
After the 2013 launch of the MAVEN Mars orbiter, he said, “No further missions to anywhere are planned. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 2:41 am by Jeff Foust
What are the industry’s assumptions about the size and vitality of the commercial market (non-US government) for launching astronauts to low Earth orbit? [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 7:36 am by Matt Johnston
- Popular MechanicsFor the past few years, NASA has been funding private space companies in the hope that they can build spacecraft that will carry astronauts to orbit. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 12:08 pm by Jordan Furlong
Franchisors figure, probably correctly, that the same lure of reliable, secure, well-known brands can draw not just clients but also lawyers into their orbits. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 9:02 am by Joseph I. Rosenbaum
On July 12, 2011, Neptune completed it’s first full orbit around the sun since its discovery. [read post]
2 Oct 2011, 1:04 pm
When it comes to the military, a helmet can be excellent protection against penetrating objects, so if the blast does cause penetrating object injuries, it is often through the face, orbit of the eye, or base of the skull, all areas not covered by the helmet. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 8:44 am by Jeff Foust
But the shuttle, and low orbit vehicles, had sort of played themselves out. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 9:00 pm by Laurent Teyssèdre
Son champ d'application inclut la stabilisation (par rotation ou translation) pour stations à vol orbital ou spatial. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 2:20 pm by Stefan Passantino
      For those who have spent all of their time recently tracking satellite orbits and running calculations on their chance of having to make a potentially uncovered homeowners claim, the Super Committee is a balanced delegation of six Democrats and six Republicans (split evenly between members of the U.S. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 6:05 am by Jeff Foust
“The promise and potential of on-orbit fuel depots is the ability to use our existing fleet of launch vehicles, including Delta IV, Atlas V, Falcon 9, Taurus II, and Liberty, to enable deep space missions,” Rohrabacher said in his statement. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 4:53 am by Glenn Reynolds
ON SALE, TODAY ONLY: The Logitech Quick-Cam Orbit, $65.67. “The Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF features motorized tracking that follows your every move, keeping you right in the middle of the picture.” Cool. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 1:23 pm
The orbiting spacecraft, the product of Eutelsat, the Paris-based communications giant, was launched from a converted oil rig in the Pacific Ocean. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 5:01 am by Jeff Foust
Similarly, there appears to be little concrete interest in reducing the gap between the shuttle’s retirement and the introduction of a replacement system to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit, be it a commercial crew system (neither House nor Senate appropriators have proposed funding CCDev at the administration’s request) or the Space Launch System (which will not be ready to fly crews for about a decade, according to NASA’s plans, which key members of Congress seem to… [read post]