ATK (Alliant Techsystems) said a solid rocket motor developed and produced by ATK Thiokol Propulsion Company, Promontory, Utah, helped launch an Athena I space launch vehicle on its first mission […]
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New Contract Demonstrates Customer’s Confidence in Company’s Flight-Proven, Lightweight STAR GEO Satellite Platform Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that it has signed a contract to construct and launch a geostationary […]
Raytheon and Air Force Demonstrate Civil-Military Interoperability for GPS-Based Precision Landing System
A government-industry team accomplished the first precision approach by a civil aircraft using a military Global Positioning System (GPS) landing system Aug. 25 at Holloman AFB, N.M., Raytheon Company announced […]
TITAN IV Launch Scheduled
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. – Vandenberg is scheduled to launch a Titan-IVB launch vehicle carrying a national security payload from Space Launch Complex 4-East, Monday at 2:19 p.m. This will be […]
Lockheed Martin Athena I Launch Vehicle Successfully Completes First Launch From Alaska’s Kodiak Launch Complex
Athena I Deploys Four Individual Satellites for NASA and Department of Defense Space Test Program KODIAK LAUNCH COMPLEX, Alaska, Sept. 29, 2001 – An Athena I launch vehicle roared into […]
Lockheed Martin Athena I Launch Vehicle Successfully Completes First Launch From Alaska’s Kodiak Launch Complex
Athena I Deploys Four Individual Satellites for NASA and Department of Defense Space Test Program KODIAK LAUNCH COMPLEX, Alaska, Sept. 29, 2001 – An Athena I launch vehicle roared into […]
Strange trail suggests presence of galactic interloper
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists have discovered what looks like a jet contrail, possibly left behind by a dwarf star traveling through interstellar space. As reported in the September issue of […]
NOAA Remote Sensing Expertise Aids World Trade Center Recovery Efforts
NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey and Aircraft Operations Center have mapped the wreckage of the World Trade Center in support of recovery and cleanup efforts following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. […]
ESA takes another step towards the search for Earth-like planets and gravitational waves
CASA and Astrium UK start to work on ESA’s future mission SMART-2 Two European companies, CASA (in Spain) and Astrium UK, will perform two independent ‘Definition Studies’ of ESA’s technology […]
Exploring Mars: Mars Mission Risks
As the Odyssey spacecraft makes it way toward Mars, mission engineers are working hard to prepare for arrival at Mars at 0230 Universal time Oct. 24 (7:30 p.m. Pacific time […]