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NASA Looking at Putting JPL Under New Management

NASA Looking at Putting JPL Under New Management

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SAN FRANCISCO — After relying on the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to run the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for more than 50 years, NASA asked May 24 for information...

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SOFIA Airborne Telescope Returns First Scientific Images

SOFIA Airborne Telescope Returns First Scientific Images

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SOFIA, the U.S. space agency’s telescope-equipped jumbo jet, took its first in-flight photos May 26, capturing multicolored infrared images of Jupiter and the galaxy M82. “With this flight, SOFIA begins...

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Report Urges Japan To Invest in Its Industry

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The Japanese government wants to make investments that would double the scale of the nation’s space industry from the current estimate of 7 trillion yen ($77 billion) to 14 trillion-15...

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Picard Delivered Late, but Just in Time for Next Solar Cycle

Picard Delivered Late, but Just in Time for Next Solar Cycle

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PARIS — France’s Picard sun-monitoring satellite, scheduled for launch June 15, is two years behind schedule — which is excellent news, according to Picard program managers. Because of a slower-than-expected...

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NASA Seeks Info on Effort To Upgrade Launch Range

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NASA is looking for ways to spend a proposed $2 billion in infrastructure investments over the next five years at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and the adjacent Cape Canaveral...

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French Bond Issue To Fund Rocket, Satellite Projects

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PARIS — The French space agency, CNES, expects to award contracts valued at more than $900 million in September as part of a multibillion-dollar French government bond issue that has...

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NASA Seeks Info on Effort To Upgrade Launch Range

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WASHINGTON — NASA is looking for ways to spend a proposed $2 billion in infrastructure investments over the next five years at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and the adjacent...

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Lockheed To Sell Two Engineering Services Units

Lockheed To Sell Two Engineering Services Units

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WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin Corp. announced June 2 it plans to divest two of its divisions, including one that provides systems engineering and integration services for U.S. intelligence agencies. Bethesda,...

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Florida Gets $15M To Retrain Shuttle Work Force

Florida Gets $15M To Retrain Shuttle Work Force

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WASHINGTON — Florida’s Brevard County has been awarded a $15 million federal grant to assist 3,200 area workers who stand to lose their jobs when NASA retires its space shuttle...

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German Space Agency Head Ends ESA Chief Candidacy, Backs New Term for Dordain

German Space Agency Head Ends ESA Chief Candidacy, Backs New Term for Dordain

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PARIS — The head of the German Aerospace Center, DLR, has formally taken himself out of the running to become director-general of the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2011 and...

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Spending Watchdog Endorses Pulling Plug on Constellation

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The nonprofit advocacy group Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) endorsed President Barack Obama’s plan to cancel NASA’s Constellation program and replace it with a human spaceflight program that emphasizes new...

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NASA Seeks Main Rocket Engine That Would Serve All Users

NASA Seeks Main Rocket Engine That Would Serve All Users

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WASHINGTON — With a new presidential mandate to settle on a heavy-lift rocket design no later than 2015, NASA plans to complete by June 21 a study examining the feasibility...

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NASA Observatory Reveals Roiling Sun in Super High Definition

NASA Observatory Reveals Roiling Sun in Super High Definition

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MIAMI — Solar storms and eruptions on the surface of the sun are showing up in unprecedented detail in images and video from NASA’s newest solar observatory. The Solar Dynamics...

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NASA Calls Off Efforts To Revive Phoenix Mars Lander

NASA Calls Off Efforts To Revive Phoenix Mars Lander

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NASA’s long-dormant Phoenix Mars Lander has been written off as lost with new images taken by an orbiting probe showing severe damage to the spacecraft’s solar panels due to the...

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Spent Motor Zips Past Earth

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NEW YORK — A small object that zipped by Earth in May is most likely a wayward piece of space junk left over from an interplanetary mission, NASA officials said....

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More Layoffs at ATK’s Solid-Rocket Plants

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Solid-rocket motor builder Alliant Techsystems (ATK) Aerospace of Magna, Utah, laid off 247 workers the week of May 17 as work winds down on NASA’s space shuttle program and on...

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Legal Review Clears NASA Study Teams

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NASA has not violated a 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act provision barring the agency from using funds appropriated for the marked-for-cancellation Constellation program to create or initiate a program to take...

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European Debt Loads Could Constrain ESA

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A multiyear space-program budget agreed to by European governments in 2008, which was already feeling the strains of government spending restrictions in late 2009, is likely to be further stressed...

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ESA Software Switch Creates $124M Contractor Payment Backlog

ESA Software Switch Creates $124M Contractor Payment Backlog

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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — The European Space Agency (ESA) has run into problems as it changes its management software, resulting in a backlog of up to 100 million euros ($124...

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