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24 Nov 2013, 8:08 am by Jeff Foust
“Boeing applauds the president’s balanced approach to developing affordable commercial crew and cargo transportation in areas of proven technology, while he simultaneously accepts the challenge for the United States – as the world’s leader in space exploration – to go far beyond Earth’s orbit,” said Boeing vice president John Elbon in a statement. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 10:35 am by Ryan Singel
In the attacks on the financial service companies, thousands downloaded a tool called LOIC — or Low Orbit Ion Cannon — that joined their computer to the group attack on the target of the moment. [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 12:10 pm by Beck, et al.
That's called "ex cathedra," and it went out of fashion back when we figured out that Aristotle was wrong and that the Sun really didn't orbit the Earth. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 3:25 am by Jeff Foust
“This was a complex mission and represents an important milestone for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program that will hopefully result in a reliable capability to deliver supplies to our space station. [read post]
25 Jan 2009, 11:46 pm
When atoms enter into suitable micro Casimir cavities a decrease in the orbital energies of electrons in atoms will thus occur. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 7:36 am by Jeff Foust
Had the shuttle been in orbit, or in the final phases of countdown to launch, its operations would have also continued, but in this case only those operations needed “to monitor and maintain the safety of the assets” will continue. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 10:06 am
He even said that Steve and Bruce were perhaps planning to assist in restoring public trust in the US Attorney's office, and of course everyone in Steve's orbit shared his passion for politics and for a change in the direction of the country. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 2:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
" Of his seven flights into orbit, Ross flew on space shuttles Endeavour and Columbia once each and a record-setting five times on shuttle Atlantis, including his first and last missions. [read post]
6 Dec 2006, 8:56 am
Jeffrey Lundgren was not a friend, but he and I walked in the same orbit of influence when we were young. [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 9:16 am
This year at NextFest the humans might seem a little envious, since the Google Lunar X Prize will send to the moon only lucky robotic rovers....)Alan Boyle reports on the prize; Space Prizes blog has this roundup; and Clark Lindsey considers some whys and why nots in connection with this exciting contest.It's Friday so I'll link one YouTube promo video (approx 8:13 min).And now that the prize is open and the news has orbited the globe (with official web sites in Spanish, Russian,… [read post]
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]
3 Dec 2012, 3:15 am by Jeff Foust
Although NASA has tamped down the wild speculation in the last couple of weeks about a major discovery by the Curiosity Mars rover, there will still be news coming out of the conference on Curiosity, as well as missions as varied as the GRAIL lunar orbiters and the Voyager spacecraft on the outskirts of the solar system. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 2:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. [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]
15 Aug 2022, 6:00 am by Jon L. Gelman
 NOAA’s GOES satellites orbit the earth, continuously observing tropical cyclones. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 5:01 am by Matthew Fitzgerald, Cort Thompson
Achieving proportionality when attacking satellites in orbit poses unique challenges. [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 8:58 am
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in the Eagle with Michael Collins orbiting above the moon in Colombia. [read post]
13 Jun 2019, 12:18 pm by Steven Pifer
If the Kremlin cannot return Ukraine to its orbit, Plan B apparently is to break it. [read post]
20 Jul 2019, 3:30 am
The first was P63: which controlled Eagle from undocking while it was still in orbit to powered-descent. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 8:27 pm
It ends by suggesting that while the development of transnational law and the transnational enterprise have come very far, neither has moved very much from the conceptual orbit of an ideology that conflates law and the state. [read post]