Hughes Electronics Corporation today announced a settlement agreement with The Boeing Company that resolves the outstanding purchase price adjustment disputes arising from Boeing’s October 2000 acquisition of Hughes satellite manufacturing […]
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NASA Names Michael Wetmore Launch Integration Manager for Space Shuttle Program
National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials today named Michael E. Wetmore as the new Launch Integration Manager for the Space Shuttle program. He assumes the responsibilities of this role effective […]
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ATK Thiokol Propulsion and IsoTruss Structures, Inc. Announce Collaboration, Marketing Effort
ATK Thiokol Propulsion, a division of Alliant Techsystems, and IsoTruss Structures, Inc. today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding for collaboration on the analysis and distribution of composite […]
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NASA Human Rating Requirement and Guidelines for Space Flight Systems Now Online
NASA has posted the “Human Rating Requirement and Guidelines for Space Flight Systems,” on the agency’s Web site. The document contains requirements and guidelines for certifying the design of future […]
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Plans Unveiled for the New Mt. Stromlo Observatory
A new icon of Australian science is to be developed by the ANU, with today’s release of plans for the reconstruction of Mt Stromlo Observatory. Bushfires in January destroyed more […]
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Actel’s RTSX-S FPGAs Selected for Herschel and Planck Scientific Space Missions
Company Contributes More Than 200 Devices to Space Investigation – Largest Ever Use of Actel FPGAs in European Space Program Actel Corporation announced today that its RTSX-S radiation-tolerant field-programmable gate […]
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SpaceDev to Develop Nanosatellite Technology – Air Force SBIR Awarded to SpaceDev
SpaceDev has been awarded a contract to develop micro- and nano-satellite bus and subsystem designs. This Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract will enable SpaceDev […]
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NASA Space Station Offers Unique View of Hurricane Claudette
International Space Station crewmembers are seeing Hurricane Claudette from a unique vantage point, 240 miles above the storm. They captured spectacular video of the storm as it was making landfall […]
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NASA Announces Space Radiation Research Grants
NASA has selected 28 researchers to conduct ground-based research in space radiation biology and space radiation shielding materials. Sponsored by NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research (OBPR), this research […]
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STARS Flight Tests Space-based Tracking Methods
A more effective, economical tracking and communication technology took flight today. The recent Space-based Telemetry And Range Safety (STARS) flight demonstration is one in a series of eight tests comprising […]
