Month: July 2008

Billionaire space buff investor Richard Branson is moving ahead with his plan to create a commercial space travel system: the WhiteKnightTwo mothership aircraft, and the SpaceShipTwo spaceship. A portion of...

A newly belligerent Russia has begun guided-missile cruiser patrols in northern waters, as Moscow reverts to some of its old Cold War practices. The cruiser patrols near the Norwegian archipelago...

[Satellite Today 07-28-08] Inmarsat has been selected by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to provide payload in-orbit test services for the four satellites that will form the Galileo In-Orbit Validation...

If you love space pictures, including shots of the big blue marble, you have to see this. Did we mention that it’s free? An immense gallery of space pictures now...

ATK Gets $16.4 Million Order For Missile Warning System The Navy gave Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] $16.4 million of orders for the AAR-47 A(V)2 warning system that protects aircraft against...

A ground station antenna system for the Mobile User Objective System was installed in Hawaii for data exchanges with satellites, General Dynamics Corp. [GD] announced. A GD unit, C4 Systems,...

NASA, one of the biggest computer users on — and off — the planet is about to make some sweeping changes in its Herculean computer networks, and that will mean...

Why do the Northern Lights brighten, dim and dance? Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to...

[Satellite News 07-27-08] A $500 million funding deal from Harbinger Capital Partners comes at a critical time for Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV), according to two of the company’s senior executives....

The drogue parachute for the Ares I first stage motor passed a drop test, NASA announced. NASA and industry engineers performed the test. The drogue parachute is designed to slow...