http://www.satellitetoday.com Satellite Today en-us 2012 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 7:17:55 EST 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 United States created NASA at the height of the... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/38019.html Sun, 1 Jan 2012 0:00:00 EST [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 announced Oct. 26.    In written... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/37765.html Wed, 26 Oct 2011 0:00:00 EDT [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. 23 House hearing that the government has already... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/37598.html Mon, 26 Sep 2011 0:00:00 EDT [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.    The report cites examples of solar... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/37547.html Thu, 15 Sep 2011 0:00:00 EDT [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 the impression that the estimates are optimistic... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/37415.html Thu, 1 Sep 2011 0:00:00 EDT 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, Freedom 7. The 50th anniversaries of the two... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/36986.html Fri, 1 Jul 2011 0:00:00 EDT 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 beautiful white bird now seen only in museums, the... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/36706.html Wed, 1 Jun 2011 0:00:00 EDT [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 April 18 press conference.     Of the... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/36623.html Tue, 19 Apr 2011 0:00:00 EDT 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 nimble satellites in the coming decade. Ever-smaller... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/36181.html Tue, 1 Mar 2011 0:00:00 EST 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 satellites, software-defined radios, next-generation... http://www.satellitetoday.com/civilspace/nasa/36184.html Wed, 16 Feb 2011 0:00:00 EST