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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 11, 2009 
Ariane 5 is available to support the future of U.S. space exploration, including cargo resupply flights for the International Space Station, along with missions to the Moon and Mars. This was the message of Arianespace Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall in a presentation to the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, which was created to evaluate America's future human ... read more 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 11, 2009The last in a series of eight modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellites built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force is set to launch aboard a Delta II rocket on Aug. 17 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The spacecraft, designated GPS IIR-21(M), completes the IIR and IIR-M series of satellites the company designed and built for the Global ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Andrews Space has announced that it has delivered avionics flight hardware to Aerojet for Bigelow Aerospace's Sundancer Aft Propulsion System. Under a five month fixed-price contract, Andrews developed, flight-qualified and delivered, 20 propulsion system diode boards responsible for electromotive force protection within the Aerojet propulsion system. Aerojet is under contract to Bigelow ... more  
Huntsville AL (NASA) Aug 11, 2009Engawa is Japanese for "porch," and while that might seem like a strange thing for a space station to have, researchers have been looking forward to the addition for a long time. Space shuttle Endeavour delivered the Japanese-built platform to the ISS on July 22nd and astronauts attached it to Japan's Kibo1 science lab a day later. Now, when a science experiment requires a dose of hard vacuum or ... more 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 11, 2009The current Augustine Review of America's human spaceflight plans has produced a fascinating showcase of ideas. Granted, it's also quite disturbing, as a very pragmatic consensus emerges that NASA will be unable to return astronauts to the Moon in the near future. On a brighter note, we've seen some interesting mission plans and architectures that have been suggested for the time when ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Boeing has received a $500,000 contract from the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory to demonstrate the company's A160T (YMQ-18A) Hummingbird for the Marines' Immediate Cargo Unmanned Aerial System Demonstration Program. "This is a big win for the program and Boeing's newly created Unmanned Airborne Systems division," said John Groenenboom, A160T program manager for Boeing. ... more  
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract to conduct a maritime airborne sensor demonstration using a company owned MQ-8B Fire Scout tactical Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System (VUAS) by ABS Group, a Systems Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) contractor for the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center. The test will take place in the Chesapeake Bay conducted from the Naval ... more 
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a communications relay payload for a government customer during multiple flights of its Bat unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Ideally suited to an irregular warfare environment, Bat offers real-time ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), communications and strike capabilities in a system that is affordable, organic and persistent. Bat is runway ... more |
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