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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Profile
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.
