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NASA's Aviation Safety Initiatives: NASA on Oct. 21-23 held its second annual Aviation Safety Technical Conference in Denver, CO, providing government, industry and academics the latest information on the U.S. space agency's four-part Aviation Safety Program. The bulk of the three-day event was comprised of parallel sessions detailing activities ongoing...; Tags: aircraft, Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-10-27
NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility crew in eastern N.O. gets award for: The director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has given an award to the crew that rode out Hurricane Gustav at Michoud Assembly Facility in eastern New Orleans. David King gave the Director's Commendation to the the 51-person "rideout" crew that stayed on the Michoud...; Tags: Components, HARDWARE, Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-10-17
Air Tanker Safety Study: NASA has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to examine the mission suitability of Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 fire retardant delivery aircraft. The aircraft under study are a DC-10 belonging to 10 Tanker Air Carrier and a 747 owned by Evergreen International Aviation. The...; Tags: aircraft, Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-10-13
Aerospace & Defense News - Space: Oct 13, 2008 Spacewalk completed, China turns focus to next phase. After a successful spacewalk, the Chinese are now focused on building a space station, followed by a manned lunar mission as early as 2020. "We might even see a traffic jam on the moon," says a professor at...; Tags: aerospace, Manufacturing, NASA, spacecraft; Research articles 2008-10-13
Company Watch - NASA: Oct 13, 2008 NASA says more shuttle workers will find Constellation jobs NASA officials told lawmakers Wednesday that the end of the space shuttle program will cost 4,500 jobs at Kennedy Space Center -- not 6,400, as originally feared. The agency says more workers than expected will find jobs...; Tags: Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-10-13

Safety and Technology Trends: This is Your Captain Sleeping The two go! pilots that that fell asleep on the inter-island CRJ-200 hop last winter, completed their FAA-imposed suspensions on September 9. However, they have long since been fired by go! parent Mesa Air Group. The flight Honolulu-Hilo, flew beyond Hilo...; Tags: aircraft, GPS, Handhelds, HARDWARE, Manufacturing, MARKETING, NASA, survey; Research articles 2008-10-06
NASA Site Uses Advanced In-Situ Chemical Oxidation for Successful Subsurface Soil and Groundwater Remediation: E-Wire -- The National Aeronautics & Space Administration's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, has undertaken aggressive groundwater and soil remediation to treat an area of on-site petroleum hydrocarbon contamination. Faced with the challenge of removing the contamination while maintaining the integrity of underground utilities, piping, and infrastructure, NASA...; Tags: contamination, E-mail, Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-09-23
NASA Specifies Hypertac® "Basket of Wires" Technology for all Space Flight Applications: Hypertronics Ensures Interconnect Reliability for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center HUDSON, Mass. -- Smiths Interconnect, a division of the global technology business Smiths Group today announces that Hypertronics cPCI connectors, featuring the trademarked Hypertac "Basket of Wires" technology are the only approved Compact PCI connectors for NASA space flight...; Tags: basket, Manufacturing, NASA, NETWORKING; Research articles 2008-09-18
Aerospace & Defense News - Space: Sep 8, 2008 Industry proposals for orbital complexes, Moon and Mars landers and a rocket capable of putting 50,000kg (110,000lb) into low-Earth orbit have emerged for a European Space Agency exploration reference architecture. At ESA's 7-8 July architecture review meeting European industry detailed ideas that could inform ESA's development...; Tags: aerospace, FINANCE, imaging, Manufacturing, NASA, NETWORKING, satellite, SOFTWARE, team; Research articles 2008-09-08
Aerospace & Defense News - Space: Sep 1, 2008 A scale-model plasma rocket engine that is to be tested at the International Space Station could be delivered in 2012 by a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services COTS program launch system. Houston, Texas-based AdAstraRocket's ISS Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket Vasimir test article will be a...; Tags: aerospace, Manufacturing, NASA, Virgin Galactic; Research articles 2008-09-01
Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America: Sep 1, 2008 Flight tests and full-scale engine demonstrators for evaluating non-conventional fuels is to be a focus of co-operation between the US Air Force Research Laboratory and the University of Dayton Research Institute UDRI in Ohio over a six-year contract. During the six years the "fuels and combustion...; Tags: aerospace, AeroVironment, aircraft, Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-09-01
Amplification Technologies Unveils World's Top Performing Solid State Photomultiplier in near Infrared Wavelength Range: Work with NASA leads to InGaAs Device that will Benefit Fields Spanning Free Space Optical Communications, Night Vision, Spectroscopy, Instrumentation and Aerospace NEW YORK -- Amplification Technologies Inc. (ATI, www.amplificationtechnologies.com), announced today the development of the worlds' top performing high gain solid state photomultiplier that operates in the near...; Tags: ATI Technologies Inc., FINANCE, Investment, Manufacturing, NASA, READERS, wavelength; Research articles 2008-08-26
Sigma Space Delivers Main Systems for NASA's First Global Hawk Science Instrument: LANHAM, Md. -- Sigma Space announced today the delivery of the complete opto-mechanical system, electronics, and fuselage structure for NASA's first science instrument to be flown in the Global Hawk platform. The instrument, built under the direction of Dr. Matthew McGill from Goddard Space Flight Center, is a lidar designed...; Tags: Dr., Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-08-25
USU gets $75K donation: LOGAN -- Utah State University's College of Engineering received a $75,000 check Friday, following the dedication of the David G. Sant Engineering Innovation Building. Alliant Techsystems provided the donation to help enhance the quality of the college's programs and facilities, according to George Torres, ATK spokesman. Along with...; Tags: aerospace, Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-06-17
On tap in space: Urine will not go to waste: WASHINGTON -- Astronauts living on the International Space Station soon will take recycling to new extremes: They'll get some of their drinking water from the toilet. NASA has spent decades perfecting a system to transform urine into water that can be used in space for drinking,...; Tags: food, Manufacturing, NASA, toilet; Research articles 2008-05-15
Educational efforts soaring at AERO Institute: city, universities, firms help boost workforce: In a Spanish-style building in Palmdale where lawyers and judges once argued over the finer points of law today calls home to classrooms in which the discussions turn to the finer points of engineering or office management skills. For going on five years the AERO Institute has pursued a...; Tags: aerospace, Antelope Technologies, institute, Manufacturing, NASA, workforce; Research articles 2008-05-12
Aerospace & Defense News - Space: May 5, 2008 Discovery Communications chairman John Hendricks will return a new and improved library -- more than 100 hours -- of archival NASA footage to NASA May 6 at a Capitol Hill ceremony and screening. Discovery digitized the footage for a new HD special, When We Left Earth:...; Tags: aerospace, Manufacturing, NASA, NETWORKING; Research articles 2008-05-05
Company Watch - NASA: May 5, 2008 NASA is adding two new rockets from a start-up aerospace company to an inventory of qualified launch vehicles the agency can select for future space science missions. The Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets are being developed by Space Exploration Technologies of Hawthorne, Calif. The company,...; Tags: Manufacturing, MARKETING, NASA, NETWORKING; Research articles 2008-05-05
Minister Uses NASA Forecasting to Study Signals of Jesus' Return.: By WorldNetDaily Will Jesus return to Earth in the year 2015? And can studying NASA's website provide evidence for such a scenario? A minister who promotes the Old Testament roots of Christianity suggests a rare string of lunar and solar eclipses said...; Tags: eclipse, forecasting, INTERNET, Jesus, Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-05-02
Aerospace & Defense News - Technology: Apr 28, 2008 Airbus Airbus last week announced completion of an inflight demonstration involving its own A340 and an SAS A330 during which the former performed several altitude changes in relation to the latter in oceanic airspace using a new ADS-B system that includes an Aviation Communication &...; Tags: aerospace, Airbus S.A.S., aircraft, Boeing Co., Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-04-28