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| 10.27.2008 |
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Honeywell Protests NASA Contract Award To ITT
Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. [HON] filed a protest last week with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), objecting to NASA awarding a $1.26 billion contract to ITT Corp. [ITT]. NASA selected ITT to perform telemetry, tracking and command services...
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| 10.27.2008 |
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NASA Launch Schedule
Updated -- October 22, 2008 - 3:45 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Nov. 14 + Mission: STS-126 Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A...
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| 10.27.2008 |
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Report: Ares I Design Flaw Could Lead to Crash
Computer models show the Ares I rocket -- being developed to launch the next-generation Orion U.S. spaceship -- could come to grief at liftoff, an Orlando Sentinel report said. Models show the tall rocket could be shoved sideways by a moderate southeast...
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| 10.27.2008 |
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Moved In Preparation For Launch
Space Shuttle Endeavour was carried from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for a nighttime launch at 7:55 p.m. ET Nov. 14 on the 15-day STS-126 Mission to the International Space Station, NASA announced. The seven-hour...
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| 10.24.2008 |
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Aerojet to Provide Propulsion for NASA's Radiation Belts Mission
[Satellite Today 10-24-08] Aerojet, a subsidiary of GenCorp, received a contract to provide propulsion systems for a NASA mission to study the Earth’s radiation belts, Aerojet announced Oct. 24. Under the contract from the Johns Hopkins...
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| 09.30.2008 |
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Ukspace Chairman: U.K. Offers ‘Too Little, Too Late’
[Satellite News 09-30-08] The United Kingdom is paying the penalty for a cautious approach to major European space programs, John Auburn, chairman of Ukspace, told Satellite News. “I think that one of the ways the [United Kingdom] can...
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| 08.15.2008 |
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Analyst: Russian Hostilities May Affect NASA Shuttle Plans
[Satellite News 08-15-08] Industry analyst Tim Farrar told Satellite News that NASA’s dependency upon the Russian Soyuz space capsules and rockets to carry astronauts to and from the space station could leave the organization vulnerable to setbacks in...
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| 03.20.2008 |
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GOES-R Contract On Schedule For December Award
[Satellite News – 3-18-08] The deadline for proposals to build the spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R series (GOES-R) program passed March 11, with Northrop Grumman, Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin submitting bids to...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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The Electra-fication Of Deep Space
A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is using the agency’s first software-defined radio (SDR) system in deep space to communicate with spacecraft studying Mars. The system, dubbed Electra, is a fully redundant UHF relay solution aboard...
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| 12.06.2007 |
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FAA Official: Private Sector Key To Commercial Space Growth
[12-06-07 – Satellite News] The business of space is heating up, particularly in the area commercial private human spaceflight, Patricia Grace Smith, associate administrator in the Office of Commercial Space Transportation for the U.S. Federal Aviation...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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NASA And The Space Channel
The time is right for NASA to transform its TV channel — NASA TV —- into something more international, more engaging and more likely to attract a larger audience. In effect, NASA TV should be put to rest and in its place should be — The...
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| 09.14.2007 |
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AeroAstro Wins Contracts
[09-14-07 – Satellite Today] AeroAstro has won two contracts to provide communications equipment to NASA and another unnamed U.S. government agency, the company announced Sept. 12. AeroAstro, a business unit for Radyne Corp., received a...
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| 08.02.2007 |
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Restructured NPOESS Program Looking 'Back To Basics'
Northrop Grumman Corp. and three U.S. government agencies have completed a restructuring of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), the organizations announced July 30. As part of the restructuring, Northrop Grumman...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Moon Plans Place Strain On Budget
NASA wants to have astronauts back on the moon by 2020, and this expensive effort is in addition to everything else the agency has on its plate. A debate is raging over NASA’s priorities as the agency strains under a lack of budgetary resources and must...
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| 07.19.2007 |
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Global Exploration Strategy Reality Check
In May, NASA and 13 other space agencies released "The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination,” which is designed to spur sharing of space exploration-related information. Along with NASA, signatories include the European...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Companies Playing Key Role In NASA Moon Plans
When President Bush unveiled his Vision for Space Exploration in early 2004, he declared that the United States would return to the moon, with a series of robotic missions paving the way for future human exploration by 2020. Not all of these planned lunar...
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| 06.04.2007 |
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SPOTLIGHT: NASA's FUSE Satellite Discovers Two Bright Young Stars Much Larger Than The Sun
NASA astronomers using the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite and ground-based telescopes, have discovered the properties of a rare, extremely massive, and young binary star system at sizes dwarfing the Sun, NASA announced May 28. Known...
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| 05.28.2007 |
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Contractors Urge $1.4 Billion Increase In 2008 NASA Funding Or 'Risk An Epic Failure' In Space Leadership
NASA needs a $1.4 billion increase in financial support or it will be sorely underfunded in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, leading contractors stated. As described by sister publication Defense Daily, nearly two dozen aerospace corporations told...
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| 04.09.2007 |
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Recent Solar Eruption Sends A Warning Shot Over Earth's Technological Bow, Scientists Warn
Recent solar activity has proven a previously unrealized weakness of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, scientists warned last week during the first Space Weather Enterprise Forum, held in Washington, D.C.. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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| 03.05.2007 |
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NASA Budget Woes Could Delay Orion-Ares Up To Six Months
A shortage of funds will mean that NASA will see a delay of up to six months for the scheduled first launch of the next-generation Orion-Ares crew exploration vehicle, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said Feb. 28. That will only lengthen further an already...
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