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22 Sep 2011, 3:59 am
The witnesses include former astronauts Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan, as well as former NASA administrator Mike Griffin; late last week the committee added another witness, MIT planetary sciences professor Maria Zuber, the principal investigator of NASA’s recently-launched GRAIL lunar orbiter mission. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 4:02 am
“If you say you have to go beyond Earth orbit, the next question is ‘why? [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 9:43 am
She fell head-first onto the pavement, fracturing the orbital bone below her left eye. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 1:16 pm
BINARY SUNSET: Kepler Spots a Planet Orbiting Two Suns, Just Like Star Wars’ Tatooine. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 7:49 pm
For the past few years, Chinese tax system reform has stepped into a positive development orbit. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 2:30 pm
The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) will observe many facets of our changing Earth. [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 7:34 am
However, Blue Origin’s own statement, posted on its web site shortly after the Journal article first appeared, and signed by Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, suggests the test failure will have little or no effect on its CCDev-2 work: “We’re working on the sub-orbital crew capsule separately, as well as an orbital crew vehicle to support NASA’s Commercial Crew program,” Bezos wrote. [read post]
3 Sep 2011, 10:30 am
ORBITAL DEBRIS UPDATE: Space junk reaching “tipping point,” report warns. “The amount of debris orbiting the Earth has reached ‘a tipping point’ for collisions, which would in turn generate more of the debris that threatens astronauts and satellites, according to a U.S. study released on Thursday. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 4:02 am
Back in July, SpaceX hired Mark Bitterman, who had spent nearly 20 years at rival Orbital Sciences Corporation, most recently as vice president of government affairs, as its new senior vice president of government affairs. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 10:35 pm
Limiting Future Collision Risk to Spacecraft: An Assessment of NASA's Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs, National Research Council, September 2011... [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 12:42 pm
Brent Collins, Orbital’s Senior Vice President and Taurus II Program Manager. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 12:34 pm
The idea is to field larger numbers of less capable systems to reduce the risk of a major space service outage in the event of an attack on a satellite system or an in-orbit failure. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 11:10 am
The question they ask is how to place an asteroid in orbit around the Earth. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 5:46 am
. “The possible first-ever evacuation of the International Space Station, if a Russian spacecraft is not launched in November, would risk the loss of the orbiting lab, a NASA official has warned.” Hmm. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 4:21 am
“The recent orbit miscalculation [on a Proton launch] and Soyuz failure reinforce the necessity to expedite design and production of the next generation of NASA space flight,” wrote Rep. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 7:00 am
Step 4 is to blow the orbiting cash sump out of the sky with my “laser.” Step 5 is to bribe the Congress to divert all the funds that used to go into the space RV into a prize fund for private operators to go to the moon, asteroids, and Mars. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 11:00 am
A LOOK AT orbital technologies’ space hotel. [read post]
27 Aug 2011, 4:22 am
” As President Obama said in his Kennedy Space Center speech last year that he expected a human landing on Mars after a Mars orbital mission in the mid-2030s, it appears Bolden plans to be around well into his 90s. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 4:49 am
Instead, it was the agency’s decision, announced April 12, on where the shuttle orbiters will be displayed upon retirement. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 8:01 pm
Concern is compounded by the fact that Roscosmos, the Russian company responsible for the launch, had also put a communications satellite in the wrong orbit just last Friday, meaning that they had two failures in less than a week. [read post]
