When NASA’s Discovery orbiter rockets into space as the agency’s first shuttle flight in more than two years, the astronauts aboard will carry a bevy of new tools and techniques to ensure their spacecraft is safe.
Showing results for:
30,509 results found Sort by:
Posted inNews
How To Build a Lunar Base With Evolution to Mars
Robert Zubrin, an astronautical engineer, is president of the Mars Society, and the author of the books The Case for Mars, Entering Space, and Mars on Earth
Posted inNews
Switching Sides: Profile of Phil Spector
Phil Spector has spent much of a long and distin�guished career as a Washington-based telecom lawyer doing battle with the company that now em�ploys him.
Posted inNews
Payloads on Military UAVs Getting Increasingly Sophisticated
WASHINGTON – Look under the nose of almost any military unmanned aerial ve�hicle (UAV), and you’ll see a ball turret, mounted so its various sen�sors and emitters can pitch up and down and rotate in a full circle.
Posted inCommercial
GAO Report Calls for Less Technology Development in Military Space Procurement
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Defense Department’s space acquisition programs contain too much development work that is better suited for its science and technology laborato�ries, according to a recent government audit report.
Posted inNews
Rocketplane XP Refining Design for $30 Million Project
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – Rocketplane Limited, Inc., an Oklahoma company that hopes to make space travel as safe, convenient and routine as air transportation, is ramping up work on its Rocketplane XP design.
Posted inNews
Pratt & Whitney Poised to Become Dominant Liquid-Propulsion House
WASHINGTON – Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion is poised to be�come the dominant U.S. maker of liquid-fueled rocket en�gines following the agreement by parent company United Tech�nologies Corp. to purchase Boe�ing’s Rocketdyne unit. The $700 million deal could be the final step in the consolidation of the U.S. rocket propulsion industry, which for years has suffered from overcapacity.
Posted inNews
Satellite Radar’s Ability To Detect Oil Spills Has Limitations
PARIS – A European government agency has concluded that satel�lite radar imagery can be used as part of an operational system to detect and track oil spills off Europe’s coastlines but that work is needed to persuade end users of the technology’s relia�bility and cost-effectiveness.
Posted inNews
NASA Needs Bush’s Tough Love
Two years after the loss of space shuttle Columbia this nation’s human space program is again on a countdown to disaster. Former NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe left the hu�man space program in shambles. His failures are many, but failing to thor�oughly investigate the shuttle crew es�cape issue will certainly head the list. In fact NASA’s planned return of the space shuttle to routine flight operations with�out the crew escape pod system is an act of gross negligence.
Posted inNews
MacDonald Dettwiler Tied Up in Hubble’s Fate
WASHINGTON – MacDonald Dettwiler’s space businesses posted gains in 2004, but the potential loss of a contract to help repair NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has company of�ficials concerned about future revenue.
