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| 01.01.2012 |
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NASA Sees Private Sector as Key to Escaping LEO
The future of NASA seems to be open to debate as budget cuts increase. With more encouragement than ever for private sector involvement in things like human spaceflight, will NASA retain its iconic status, or gradually start to fade into the shadows? When the...
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| 10.26.2011 |
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SpaceX’s Musk Testifies Before U.S. Congress on NASA COTS, CCDev Progress 
[Satellite News 10-26-11] SpaceX CEO Elon Musk testified before the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee on the progress of its $75 million NASA Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program contract awarded in April, the commercial launch company...
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| 09.26.2011 |
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U.S. Congress “Surprised” by the Cost of Wasted Weather Satellite Opportunities
[Satellite News 09-26-11] While congressional committees work to trim the United States’ costs by targeting valuable science and weather satellite programs, Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Andy Harris (R- Md.) admitted during a Sept...
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| 09.15.2011 |
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Space Weather Report: Solar Superstorm Could Kill Majority of In-Orbit Satellites
[Satellite News 09-15-11] A massive solar “superstorm” could endanger, and potentially kill, several weather, telecommunications, and military satellites in less than a year, according to a Space Weather research report issued earlier this month...
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| 09.01.2011 |
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Independent Study Casts Financial Doubt on NASA SLS Program
[Satellite News 09-01-11] While NASA’s cost estimates for its Space Launch System (SLS) program’s budget planning are reasonable in a three-to-five-year budget horizon, program cost efficiencies could represent a risk to the program and lead to...
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| 07.01.2011 |
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After the Shuttle: Public/Private Partnerships and Technology Transfers
On April 12, 1961, Russian Yuri Gagarin made the first human flight into space. His Vostok spacecraft completed one earth orbit, and was followed in May 1961 by the suborbital flight of Alan Shepard, the first American in space, aboard his Mercury spacecraft...
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| 06.01.2011 |
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Goodbye to the Space Shuttle
The U.S. Space Shuttle program will come to a close this year, a little more than 30 years after its inaugural flight, with the last flight scheduled for late June. Always a technological marvel and never an economic one, the shuttle reminds us of another...
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| 04.19.2011 |
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SpaceX, Boeing Among NASA Commercial Crew Development Winners
[Satellite News 04-19-11] NASA has distributed $269 million to four U.S. commercial launch companies as part of the Obama administration’s National Space Policy to develop domestic alternatives to send astronauts to orbit, the agency announced in an...
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| 03.01.2011 |
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Satellite R&D Landscape Rich with Promise NASA Space Technology Focus, Military Requirements Driving Future Innovations
Read an exclusive, extended version of this feature here. The satellite sector is poised to see a period of rapid innovation and growth, spurred by the new U.S. National Space Policy, a broadband-hungry military and planned launches of more powerful and...
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| 02.16.2011 |
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Satellite R&D Landscape Rich with Promise NASA Space Technology Focus, Military Requirements Driving Future Innovations
The satellite sector is poised to see a period of rapid innovation and growth, spurred by the new U.S. National Space Policy, a broadband-hungry military and planned launches of more powerful and nimble satellites in the coming decade. Ever-smaller...
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| 02.15.2011 |
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Analysts, Industry Groups See Mixed News in U.S. Agencies’ 2012 Budget Requests
[Satellite News 02-15-11] NASA, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and the U.S. Department of Defense revealed their 2012 fiscal year budget proposals to Congress, giving insight into the spending plans of one the satellite...
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| 12.02.2010 |
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U.S. Congress' Confusion over NASA Authorization Act Fuels Legal Study
[Satellite News 12-03-10] While the recently enacted NASA Authorization Act of 2010 provides the agency with much-needed support to reduce acquisition risks and implement new ways of conducting future operations, the bill, signed into law in October, also...
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| 11.30.2010 |
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GAO: NASA Fails to Budget for Delays, Cost Overruns in Delta 2 Replacement Strategy
[Satellite News 11-30-10] The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) urged NASA to retool its medium-launch transition strategy after it found that the agency’s plans lack an affordable and reliable replacement for the retiring Delta 2 launch...
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| 07.19.2010 |
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Work to Build Space Workforce Intensifies as Students Enter University Level
Winning the initial battle for young hearts and minds is key for the future of the space sector, and important work is being done with younger students. But that is only half the battle, as numerous science- and math-related professions are available once...
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| 07.06.2010 |
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U.S. Satellite Industry Addresses its Aging Workforce Issues
[Satellite News 07-06-10] One of the main issues facing the U.S. space and satellite sector is an aging workforce, and attracting the young people that will build, launch and operate the rockets, satellites and communications networks of the future has proven...
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| 06.28.2010 |
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White House Releases Key Elements of Upcoming U.S. National Space Policy
[Satellite News 06-28-10] U.S. President Barack Obama’s new National Space Policy (NSP) will contain measures to double the available amount of spectrum for wireless communications over the next 10 years and establish grounds to seek international...
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| 06.24.2010 |
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The Young Generation and the Space Dreams of Tomorrow
One of the main issues facing the space sector is an aging work force, and attracting the young people that will build, launch and operate the rockets, satellites and communications networks of the future has proven difficult. The sector has lost the appeal...
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| 04.16.2010 |
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National Space Symposium Provides Forum for Civil Space Concerns
[Satellite News 04-16-10] The 26th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs brought technology enthusiasts and business leaders together to address the future of the commercial and civil value of the global space industry. In its...
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| 04.13.2010 |
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NASA Administrator Addresses Worried Audience at Space Symposium
[Satellite News 04-13-10] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told anxious audience members at the 2010 Space Symposium that U.S. President Barack Obama’s new direction for NASA, outlined in the 2010 fiscal year governmental budget, should be seen as a...
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| 04.01.2010 |
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A New Path to the Moon
In December, we discussed the final report of the White House Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, otherwise known as the Augustine Committee. The report found NASA’s current human spaceflight program to be on an “unsustainable...
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