— Consistent with Company’s Financial Improvement Plan, Orbital Has Reduced Debt by Approximately $200 Million in 2001 — Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that it has completed the […]
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The sky is black 100,000 feet above ground, and the curvature of the Earth is clearly discernible. The air is so thin–only 1.4 percent of the density at sea level–it […]
A decade of ERS Earth-watching
When ERS-1 was lofted into orbit by an Ariane-4 launcher on 17 July 1991, it carried the hopes of Europe’s scientific community. For nerve-wracking minutes, those hopes looked as though […]
Centennial of Flight Commission Selects Firm for Outreach Support
The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission has selected Carter Ryley Thomas Public Relations and Marketing Counsel (CRT) of Richmond, VA, to support the Commission in encouraging and promoting national and […]
Launch Date Change for Sub-Orbital Solar Sail: Solar Sail Test Flight Launches from Russian Arctic July 20
The deployment test flight for the Cosmos 1 Solar Sail project has been re-scheduled to launch on July 20, 2001 at 4:33 AM (Moscow time), which is July 19, 2001 […]
Watch global warming happen in real time – on Mars
Though there has been a fair amount of evidence that the Earth’s atmosphere is undergoing global warming, the process is slow enough that there are plenty of skeptics, including some […]
NASA celebrates 25th Anniversary of Mars Landing
Twenty-five years ago, on July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander soft-landed on the surface of Mars, becoming the first successful mission to land on the Red Planet, as well […]
Solar-powered Helios aims for record altitude
The sky is black 100,000 feet above ground, and you can clearly see the curvature of the Earth. The air is so thin it is incapable of supporting life. It […]
Actel Ships Space Industry’s First Qualified FPGA With Unique Hardened Latches
Actel Corporation today announced qualification and shipment of the RT54SX32S field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the first member of the company’s radiation-tolerant RTSX-S family specifically architected to address single-event upsets (SEUs) […]
Aerospace Awards Harris Corporation $5.4 Million In Contracts for Satellite On-Board Processors
Harris Corporation, a leading manufacturer of radiation-hardened (Rad-Hard) processors for spaceborne applications, announced today that it has been awarded three contracts totaling $5.4 million to provide its RH3000 processor modules […]