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.
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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.
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Unfinished Business
Having won a big 2005 budget increase for NASA — with a lot of help from Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas) and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) — and nearly unprecedented spending flexibility for his successor, NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe has decided to leave on a high note for the much greener pastures of academia. He has every right to do that, but he is leaving at a critical time in NASA’s history and dumping some major decisions squarely in the lap of the next administrator.
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Nanotechnology: Scientists Pin Big Hopes on a Small Scale
BOULDER, Colo. — Nanotechnology, which is being developed for use in a number of industries, may have large payoffs for space applications and exploration missions.
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For ESA, a Year of Negotiations With More Expected in 2005
PARIS — European governments in 2004 resolved their most pressing space-policy issues but were forced to delay until 2005 other matters that are just as important.
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MDA Says Test Failure Will Not Affect System Deployment Timetable
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is insisting that the failed test Dec. 15 of the interceptor for the fledgling national missile shield will not affect the timetable for putting the system on alert.
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Much Riding on the Delta 4 for USAF, Boeing
WASHINGTON — Boeing Co. and the U.S. Air Force have a lot more riding on the first mission of the heavy-lift Delta 4 rocket than the demonstration payload it is supposed to carry into space, officials said.
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European Union Approves Military Access to Encrypted Galileo Signal
PARIS — British protests notwithstanding, the military forces of France and other European Union nations will be able to use Europe’s future encrypted satellite navigation signals as they see fit, European government officials said.
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Three Years in the Hot Seat
WASHINGTON — When Sean O’Keefe was sworn in as NASA administrator Dec. 21, 2001, at the top of his agenda was to bring fiscal discipline to a space agency that had recently allowed a $5 billion surprise to swamp its key program, an international space station already more than a decade behind schedule.
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U.S. Civilian Agencies Envision More Influence Under New Satellite Navigation Policy
WASHINGTON — A new satellite navigation policy signed Dec. 8 by U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to give civilian agencies more influence in decisions affecting the GPS system, which is owned and operated by the military, according to a U.S. government official.
