COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The first operational satellite developed by the Pentagon’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office is ready to launch as early as May after completing environmental testing with no major holdups, the office’s director said April 13.
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JPSS Ground Segment Planning Slowed by NASA Budget Shortfall
WASHINGTON — A major funding shortfall is forcing NASA to defer detailed planning for phasing in the ground segment of its next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite system in order to concentrate on making sure the basic operating system is ready in time for the launch of the first satellite late this year, an agency official said.
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Obama: Politics Not at Play in Denying Texas a Shuttle
U.S. President Barack Obama said the White House played no part in choosing the museums where NASA’s retired space shuttles will be displayed, and that the city of Houston was not overlooked for political reasons.
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Commercial Spaceflight Federation Applauds Winners of Round Two of NASA’s Commercial Crew Development Program
The Federation Congratulates NASA’s Efforts to Restore US Crew Transportation Capability Following Retirement of the Space Shuttle and Decrease Reliance on Russian Soyuz Washington, D.C., Monday, April 18, 2011 – […]
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News Media Invited to Naming of Mission Control Center
News media are invited to attend a naming ceremony for the Mission Control Center at 10 a.m. CDT Thursday, April 14, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which will include an […]
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Activity Spike Keeping Unlikely Wallops Contractor Busy
SAN FRANCISCO — NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility is experiencing a spike in activity as personnel prepare to conduct a series of research missions on sounding rockets, unmanned aerial vehicles and Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Minotaur 1 and Taurus 2 rockets. That ambitious schedule is keeping all Wallops workers busy but offers a particular challenge for LJT & Associates Inc., the firm that won a five-year contract in June and took over the management in August of the Wallops Research Range, the only launch range owned and operated by NASA.
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New Theory: Titan Shaped By Weather, Not Ice Volcanoes
Have the surface and belly of Saturn’s smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling cauldron with ice volcanoes, or has this distant moon gone cold? In a newly […]
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Taurus 2 Work Poised To Begin at New Wallops Assembly Facility
SEATTLE — Work on Orbital Science Corp.’s Taurus 2 medium-class launch vehicle is ready to get under way at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore following the official opening of a new rocket assembly facility there.
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NASA Ushers In New Space Exploration Era At Wallops Flight Facility
NASA ushered in a new era of space exploration at its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony opening the new Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF). […]
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ORBCOMM and SpaceX Set Plans to Launch Satellites on Next Falcon 9 Launch
Falcon 9 Rocket to Carry ORBCOMM’s First Two Next-Generation OG2 Satellites ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: ORBC) and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) today announced plans to carry the first two ORBCOMM next-generation […]
