Former astronaut Neil Armstrong decried the lack of American access to low Earth orbit in the wake of the space shuttle’s retirement, telling U.S. lawmakers Sept. 22: “For a country that has invested so much for so long to achieve a leadership position in space exploration and exploitation, this condition is viewed by many as lamentably embarrassing and unacceptable,” AFP reported.
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New Mexico Candidates Grilled on Spaceport [NMpolitics.net]
Republican and Democratic candidates for New Mexico’s governorship see Spaceport America as a potential economic boon but only one directly addresses the question of whether the state should continue to be a major underwriter of the facility, which will be the headquarters and operating base for Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space tourism venture, the website NMPolitics.net reports.
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Spaceport America Runway To Get $7M Extension [Las Cruces Sun-News]
New Mexico spaceport officials have approved a $7 million extension of the Spaceport America runway by about 600 meters to address safety concerns from Virgin Galactic, the Las Cruces (N.M.) Sun-News reports.
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Landing gear problem with space tourism jet [AP via Florida Today]
WhiteKnightTwo, the mothership designed to send Virgin Galactic’s suborbital SpaceShipTwo aloft, made a rougher than expected landing Aug. 19 when its left main landing gear collapsed following a test flight, the Associated Press reported from Mojave, Calif.
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DISA’s Cindy Moran to Keynote at 2011 DoD Commercial SATCOM User’s Workshop December 13-15, 2011
Washington, D.C. September XX, 2011 – The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) is pleased to announce that Ms. Cindy Moran, Director of Network Services at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), […]
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Budget Boost for FAA Commercial Space Office Hits Headwinds
SAN FRANCISCO — Instead of providing the large funding increase the White House requested in its 2012 budget for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation, appropriators in the House and Senate are recommending maintaining funding at current levels or even reducing it.
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ATK Spacecraft Bus Contributes to Significant ORS-1 Milestone
ORS-1 Satellite Completes Successful On-Orbit Checkout U.S. Air Force Declares Spacecraft Fully Operational ATK (NYSE: ATK) joins the U.S. Air Force in marking a significant milestone for the Department of […]
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SpaceX Tweaks Falcon 9 Fuel Load To Avoid Oxygen-rich Shutdown
WASHINGTON — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) plans to carry more fuel on the next launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to avoid a repeat of the oxygen-rich engine shutdown that marred an otherwise successful demonstration flight last December.
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ORBCOMM Prepares for Launch of AIS Satellite
VesselSat1 ships to launch pad following successful testing ORBCOMM Inc. ORBC +7.47% , a global satellite data communications company focused on two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that LuxSpace Sarl […]
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Editorial: The Quiet Company
One need not buy into the entertainment industry axiom that there’s no such thing as bad publicity to recognize its core element of irony-tinged truth in the recent test failure that destroyed Blue Origins’ prototype New Shepard rocket.
