Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. is challenging NASA’s surprise award of a contract to build the next three U.S. civilian weather satellites to rival Orbital ATK, a Ball official said.
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Dawn Is In Excellent Shape One Month After Arriving at Ceres
Since its capture by the gravity of dwarf planet Ceres on March 6, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has performed flawlessly, continuing to thrust with its ion engine as planned. The thrust, […]
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Commercial Spaceflight Industry Pushes for Another Extension of Regulatory ‘Learning Period’
With less than six months to go before a limitation on regulating U.S. commercial human spaceflight companies expires, industry and government officials have yet to find agreement on whether to extend the current arrangement or, if not, how to replace it.
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31st ASGSR Conference: Call for Abstracts – Deadline to submit is July 1, 2015
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 31st American Society for Gravitational and Space Research Conference 11-14 November 2015 Meeting The Westin Alexandria, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A. Call for Abstracts Deadline to Submit is 1 July […]
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Cloud Observatory, Lunar Reflectance Craft in NASA Earth Venture Race
A moon-watching small-satellite and a trio of formation-flying cloud monitoring sensors are among the early candidates vying for a shot at $150 million in funding under a NASA Earth Venture competition set to begin this summer.
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Satellite-based Aircraft Tracking Joins C-band Fight on WRC-15 Agenda
International radio-frequency regulators agreed to address satellite-based global commercial aircraft tracking when they meet at WRC-15 to allocate spectrum that will also decide whether frequencies currently reserved for satellite services will be opened to terrestrial broadband wireless networks.
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NASA Invites Public to April Hubble 25th Anniversary Events
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 25 years of science this April 2015 with a variety of events open to the public around the U.S. Here is a sampling of events […]
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Space Law 101: Filling the Legal Vacuum
Space law expert Joanne Gabrynowicz says the evolution of the field is painstakingly slow, a reality, she says, that makes virtues out of patience and tolerance for ambiguity.
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NASA Announces New Partnerships with U.S. Industry for Key Deep-Space Capabilities
Building on the success of NASA’s partnerships with commercial industry to date, NASA has selected 12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) to advance concept studies and technology development […]
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Race to Detect Gravitational Waves Advances with New NSF-funded NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) $14.5 million over 5 years to create and operate a Physics Frontiers Center (PFC).The […]
