PARIS — Twelve new commercial telecommunications satellite orders were booked in 2004, a year in which Space Systems/Loral did not emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection but did emerge from a multi-year slump in new business.
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WASHINGTON — N ASA intends to forge ahead with its space exploration agenda despite direction from Congress to throttle back on a key part of it to make refurbishing the Hubble Space Telescope a top priority.
Brazil To Propose $10 Million Space Station Contribution
Brazil has reaffirmed its commitment to participate in the international space station program with a planned contribution of $10 million over the next four years, according to the South American nation’s top space official.
XM’s Insurance Goes Up On Next Launch
PARIS — XM Satellite Radio will be paying several million dollars more than it expected in insurance premiums by virtue of its being moved ahead of Intelsat in the launch manifest of Sea Launch LLC, according to industry officials.
New U.S. Space Transportation Policy Emphasizes EELV Rockets
WASHINGTON — A new U.S. government space transportation policy throws its weight firmly behind the two rocket families that were developed under the Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program.
Disaster Response
Satellites played an important role in the global response to the Dec. 26 tsunamis that devastated coastal areas throughout the southern Indian Ocean region and they can play an expanded role in the future — both for disaster response and in some limited cases by providing better warning for those in danger.
Defending the Globe From Missile Attack
The topic is global missile defense. But just how do you defend the whole globe? The best way — perhaps the only effective way — is from overhead. Yet, the Pentagon plans to spend as much as $20 billion over the next 10 years to develop a very high-speed interceptor that theoretically can stop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the boost phase — not from overhead — but from a land- or sea-based platform.
Napkin Sketch
Sometime in the s pring or s ummer of 1991, I was enjoying one of the great burgers and fries that you could get at The Outpost Tavern, not far from the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, and having a conversation with the head of JSC’s Exploration Project Office. He was bemoaning the poor prospects for funding programs for “Capital-E” Exploration.
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While the U.S. government has been relying more on the commercial sector to supplement its seemingly insatiable appetite for satellite communications, the military was lucky that there were adequate resources that could be tapped for current military operations in the Middle East.
This Was The Year Space Tourism Finally Took Off
WASHINGTON — The dream of opening space to the general public was given a tremendous boost in 2004 with SpaceShipOne’s prize-winning suborbital jaunt and congressional legislation to help establish a space travel industry in the United States. But even the biggest champions of commercial spaceflight acknowledge that a vital space tourism market is still years from becoming reality.