Space & Missile Defense Report
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Business/FinancialDocument Setting The Task For Augustine Committee In Its Review Of NASA Hardware
Below is the document setting forth what a committee reviewing NASA space exploration programs must do, including its review of what hardware shall be procured for manned space missions. The […]
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Business/Financial
Artemis Sensor Activated Aboard TacSat-3 Satellite
The Artemis hyperspectral imaging sensor was activated on the TacSat-3 satellite, and Artemis is fully functional, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. Activation marks the beginning of the year-long TacSat-3 mission to […]
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Business/Financial
House NASA Budget Plan Would Slash Constellation Program; Cuts Would Be Provisional, Awaiting Report Of Augustine Panel
While some lawmakers and other critics say President Obama’s budget plan leaves NASA underfunded, his proposal may be far better than what the space agency ultimately will receive from Congress. […]
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Business/Financial
Critics Of Missile Defense Delight In Gates Comments
Long-time foes of missile defense programs have found new friends in an unlikely place: top-tier offices in the Pentagon. Comments that Department of Defense leaders have made to argue for […]
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Business/Financial
Space Forum New York: Commercial Firms Will Perform Missions For Less Money Than NASA, Space Tourist Richard Garriott Says, And NASA Could Operate For Half The Money It Now Receives
Commercial Space Industry Poised For Launch, Lifting Investors On A Ride To Success, Garriott Predicts; New Uses For Space Seen NEW YORK — Private commercial space firms will be able […]
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SpaceAtlantis Returns To Kennedy Atop 747 Carrier Aircraft
Space Shuttle Atlantis finally returned home, riding atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft. That piggyback ride was needed because foul Florida weather forced Atlantis to land on the West […]
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[June 8, 2009]
// PDF View- House NASA Budget Plan Would Slash Constellation Program; Cuts Would Be Provisional, Awaiting Report Of Augustine Panel
- Space Forum New York: Commercial Firms Will Perform Missions For Less Money Than NASA, Space Tourist Richard Garriott Says, And NASA Could Operate For Half The Money It Now Receives
- Space Forum New York: Air Force Space Buyer Says Contract Protests Can Be Avoided By Making Requirements Precise, Measureable
- Space Forum New York: Space Station Shutdown After 2015 Makes No Sense, NASA Advisor Says; Station Just Now Nearing Completion, Full Use
- Missile Defense Conference: O’Reilly Says High Cost Of Targets A Hurdle; Mass-Produced Lower-Cost Targets Needed
- Missile Defense Conference: Obama Missile Defense Cuts Will Harm Industrial Base, Eliminate Boost-Phase Programs
- Missile Defense Conference: Critic Of Missile Defense Favors Research, But Doesn’t Back Programs, Systems
- Missile Defense Conference: Burgeoning North Korean, Iranian Missile Threats Rise, Even As United States Cuts Missile Defense
- Obama Taps Rep. McHugh For Army Secretary
- Clinton Says Iranian Nuclear Attack On Israel Would Draw ‘Retaliation,’ But Doesn’t Repeat Comment That U.S. Would Annihilate Iran
- IAEA Report Says Iran Increases Number Of Centrifuges; Tracking Iranian Nuclear Production Program More Difficult
- Heritage Foundation Says United States May Need To Use Military Force To Halt Iranian March To Nuclear Weapons
- Group Proposes A Dozen Ways To Prevent Iran Making Nuclear Weapons Without Going To War
- After NASA Is Grounded As Shuttles Retire, Russian Soyuz Flights To Transport American Astronauts Will Cost U.S. Taxpayers $306 Million
- Augustine Committee Opens Website
- Document Setting The Task For Augustine Committee In Its Review Of NASA Hardware
- Critics Of Missile Defense Delight In Gates Comments
- Atlantis Returns To Kennedy Atop 747 Carrier Aircraft
- Endeavour Given Thumbs Up To Launch At 7:17 A.M. ET Saturday On STS-127 Mission
- Circus Leader To Become Space Tourist
- RazakSAT Now Set To Launch From Kwajalein July 13 Or 14
- Sea Sparrow Missile Tests Go Well
- Alternate Launch Abort System To Be Tested At Wallops June 15
- NASA’s Shuttle and Rocket Launch Schedule
- NASA Selects Four Proposals to Study Space Radiation Risks
- Raytheon Gains $14.7 Million Patriot Depot Maintenance Contract Change
- General Dynamics To Bolster WIN-T Ground Facilities With Ku, Ka Band Additions
- Astrium To Study Robotic Moon Landings For Germany
- ESA Extends Envisat Earth-Scanning Satellite Mission
- Europe Begins Testing Urine/Feces/Air Recycling Machine, After United States Has Similar System Up And Working Aboard International Space Station, Serving Crew Of Six
- Plank Satellite Conducts Midcourse Correction
- Artemis Sensor Activated Aboard TacSat-3 Satellite
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Business/Financial
Space Forum New York: Air Force Space Buyer Says Contract Protests Can Be Avoided By Making Requirements Precise, Measureable
Payton Says If GPS III Contract Award Had Been Protested, Air Force Still Was Set To Let Winner Commence Work On Critically Needed Satellites NEW YORK — The Department of […]
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Space
Endeavour Given Thumbs Up To Launch At 7:17 A.M. ET Saturday On STS-127 Mission
NASA leaders gave Space Shuttle Endeavour a green light to launch at 7:17 a.m. June 13 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A on an exhausting 16-day mission to the […]
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CongressSpace Forum New York: Space Station Shutdown After 2015 Makes No Sense, NASA Advisor Says; Station Just Now Nearing Completion, Full Use
NEW YORK — It would be incomprehensible to shut down the International Space Station after 2015, even though that is what current law envisions, a senior NASA figure said. Alan […]