TOULOUSE, France – South Korea’s Kompsat-2 high-resolution optical Earth observation satellite is being positioned in the market as a 1-meter-resolution spacecraft whose images will be openly available to most customers, according to South Korean and French officials responsible for selling the data.
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Depite Orbcomm Stock Slide Vendors Confident of Satellite Work
PARIS — OHB Technology Group remains confident that the satellite-messaging company Orbcomm, of which it is a part owner, will build a second-generation constellation of satellites with funds from its stock-market listing despite the poor performance of Orbcomm’s stock since its Nov. 3 entry onto the Nasdaq market.
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Editorial: India Is Ready
It should surprise no one that India’s space agency is ready and eager to launch its own human spaceflight program. The country has well-developed space capabilities and long ago demonstrated the ability to build sophisticated launch vehicles and satellites.
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Virgin Galactic Aims High with Commercial Spaceflight Plans
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — While the business plan being developed by Virgin Galactic — the company that intends to take commercial customers into space — focuses on suborbital space flights in the near-term, the company also is developing plans to eventually offer point-to-point rocket travel around the globe, as well as to space hotels, and eventually even trips to the Moon.
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Constellation Battles the Blogosphere
WASHINGTON — Dogged by rumors that Ares 1 would not be able to lift the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle if the rocket was built as currently envisioned, NASA’s Constellation program manager shot back Nov. 13 at unnamed critics in an e-mail missive he said he wrote to set the record straight.
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U.S. Government Mulls Options for New Photoreconnaissance System
ORLANDO, Fla. — A s the White House puts the finishing touches on its budget request to Congress for 2008, the U.S. national security community continues to debate the capabilities to be included on a new series of photoreconnaissance satellites that likely will have to be under contract within the next year or so.
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OpEd: Realistic Space Power Strategy Needed
The long-awaited Bush Administration national space policy is a statement of the past dressed up 21st century garb. The dramatically changing context of space policy for this century is missing in action. The United States is asserted to be the dominant space player with a right to “freedom of action” in a period of robust national space exploration and commercial space revival. The only thing wrong with this document is its misguided direction. The United States cannot lead if it does not know how to leverage an increasingly dynamic and fluid space environment.
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OpEd: The Challenge to Congress and NASA: Working Together to Build a Successful Space Program
NASA and Congress have been given the challenge of designing, authorizing, funding, organizing and executing a successful space program that not only has the broad support of the American public, but also can deliver on the goal of expanding our knowledge base through the further discovery and exploration of space. As the “Report of the Advisory Committee on the Future of the U.S. Space Program” stated, such a program requires a culture of excellence and risk-taking.
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Editorial: Rumsfeld’s Other Legacy
Those who have long believed that the U.S. military does not make the most of what space has to offer are bound to have a unique take on the tenure of outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In Mr. Rumsfeld, who resigned under fire Nov. 8, space advocates had a kindred spirit who tried to make their shared vision a reality.
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Editorial: NASA and the New Congress
NASA does not figure to be high on the list of priorities when the new Congress convenes in January, but the shift in the balance of political power following the Nov. 7 elections is not without implications for the U.S. space agency.
