Founding Executive Director John Gedmark Welcomes His Successor Onboard Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 3, 2011 – Eric Anderson, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, is […]
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EMCORE Awarded Solar Panel Manufacturing Contract for NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) Mission
EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq:EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optic and solar power markets, announced today that the it has been awarded a contract […]
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SpaceShipTwo Makes Safe Landing After Tense Test Flight
A malfunction during the most recent test flight of the private spacecraft SpaceShipTwo sent the vehicle hurtling out of control until its crew could stabilize the craft for a safe landing.
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UCF Hires NASA Veteran Alan Stern to Lead Space Institu
A former NASA leader whose career has touched nearly every aspect of manned and unmanned space flight has been named director of the Florida Space Institute. S. Alan Stern will […]
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Roy W. Malone Jr. selected to lead Shuttle-Ares Transition Office
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Roy W. Malone Jr. has been selected to lead the Shuttle-Ares Transition Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Named to the position in […]
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ORBCOMM Announces Successful Launch of AIS-Enabled Satellite
VesselSat1 expands ORBCOMM’s satellite AIS service ORBCOMM Inc. ORBC +1.83% , a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced the successful launch of VesselSat1, […]
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NASA Selects Technology Payloads For Reduced-Gravity Flights
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected nine proposals to demonstrate new technologies for the second set of payloads to fly on commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicles and the Zero-G commercial parabolic […]
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Latest Results from NASA’s Dawn at Vesta
Figure 1: Approach image of Vesta contrasting southern hemisphere (lower right) with northern hemisphere (upper left) http://www.europlanet-eu.org/outreach/images/stories/ep/news/epsc2011/1_vesta.jpg NASA’s Dawn mission, which has been orbiting Vesta since mid-July, has revealed that […]
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Report: MARS Needs More Money [Daily Press]
A recent report on the Virginia-state sponsored Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at Wallops Island, Va., concluded that increased funding will be necessary to keep the operation afloat, according to the Daily Press.
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Interview with Will Whitehorn [MeetTheBoss TV]
In an interview with the British website www.meettheboss.tv, Virgin Galactic President Will Whitehorn discusses the environment, civilization’s needs and how both are taken into account in various Virgin Group transportation activities, including suborbital space tourism.
