General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) , has been selected by NASA to build the spacecraft for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). Under […]
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4,286 results found Sort by:Burt Rutan to Receive Heinlein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aerospace
Washington D.C., April 15, 2008 — The National Space Society (NSS) announced today that famed aircraft and spacecraft designer Burt Rutan will receive the Heinlein award for lifetime achievement in […]
Lockheed Martin Successfully Launches ICO G1 Mobile Interactive Media Spacecraft
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LM) successfully delivered a telecommunications satellite into orbit this afternoon aboard an Atlas V rocket manufactured by United Launch Alliance. Liftoff on the Atlas V 421 configuration […]
ICO Launches New Era in Mobile Television
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.–(ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited (ICO) (NASDAQ:ICOG) announced today that it has successfully launched its North American geosynchronous satellite, ICO G1. ICO will be conducting alpha trials for […]
Mainstream Space
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t is now more than
50 years since the dawn of the space age, and even today much of space activity remains the monopoly of governments and their sensitive defense establishments. Space exploration budgets are closely tied to defense and intelligence pursuits, and their budgets are all linked in some way, shape or form. Indeed, it is correct to say that space activity is a niche human endeavor and not yet fully integrated into the mainstream of peaceful, sustainable, progressive human activities.
OpEd: After the A-Sat Tests
Destructive anti-satellite (A-Sat) tests are rare. The Pentagon’s destructive anti-satellite test in February followed 13 months after
China
used one of its aging satellites for target practice. The previous voluntary, global moratorium on destructive A-Sat testing lasted 22 years. Because tests that blow up satellites are so rare, they are important indicators of space security. They make all spacefaring nations less confident about the security of vulnerable satellites that are essential for national and economic security.
Two New Star Systems Are First of Their Kind Ever Found
Video COLUMBUS, Ohio — Astronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind — until its discovery helped them pinpoint a second […]
Space Adventures Takes Full Ownership Stake in Zero-G
Space tourists came closer to having a one-stop shop as Space Adventures announced
its Jan. 1 purchase of Zero Gravity Corp., or Zero-G, which provides paying passengers brief periods of weightlessness during flights aboard a modified Boeing 727 aircraft known as G-Force One.
Rocketplane Global Flies Solo with Revised Technical Approach
GOLDEN, Colo. —
Rocketplane Global Inc. (RGI) has completed an overhaul of its effort to build a
suborbital space plane to serve the
space tourism and
microgravity research markets and possibly even launch small satellites
.