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- Orbital Successfully Launches Company-Built IBEX Satellite aboard Pegasus Rocket for NASA
- -- Latest Mission Is 26th Consecutive Successful Launch for Pegasus -- -- Scientific Satellite to Study the Heliosphere is Performing as Expected Early in its Mission -- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that its Pegasus([R]) rocket successfully launched the company-built Interstellar Boundary Explorer...
- Research articles 2008-10-20
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-09-08
- Orbital Names Frank Culbertson and Mark Pieczynski to Company's Management Team
- -- Culbertson to Become Senior Vice President of Advanced Programs in Dulles, VA -- -- Pieczynski Appointed Vice President of Southern California Engineering Center in Huntington Beach, CA -- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) has named two experienced executives to fill new roles in its Advanced...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- SpaceX Sets August 2 for Falcon 1 launch
- First Privately Developed Liquid Fuel Rocket to Orbit HAWTHORNE, Calif. -- Space Exploration Technologies Corp. SpaceX has scheduled the launch of the Falcon 1 Flight 3 mission for Saturday, August 2nd. The launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. PDT / 7:00 p.m. EDT and remain open for five...
- Research articles 2008-08-02
- Orbital Delivers NASA's IBEX Satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for Integration with Pegasus Launch Vehicle
- -- Company-Built Interstellar Boundary Explorer Spacecraft to be Launched Aboard Pegasus Rocket from Kwajalein Atoll Near the Equator -- DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) announced today that the Interstellar Boundary Explorer IBEX satellite has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base VAFB, CA following the completion of its...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Satellite to shed light on global warming
- BELTSVILLE, Md. -- NASA plans to launch a new satellite next year that will help scientists fill in a gap in their understanding of global warming: the role of clouds and airborne particles. The satellite Glory, targeted for launch in June, will give scientists a much better...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- French-US Jason 2 satellite blasts off: NASA
- WASHINGTON AFP — The French-US oceanographic monitoring satellite Jason 2, designed to measure rising sea levels and track the effects of climate change, was successfully launched into space Friday, NASA said. "Lift-off of the Delta 2 rocket, with Jason 2 for the ocean survey topography mission, measuring sea level...
- Research articles 2008-06-20
- Sea-level tracking satellite launched
- WASHINGTON AFP — A French-US satellite, which will provide the most accurate monitoring ever of rising sea levels and track the effects of climate change, was launched into orbit Friday from California. A Delta 2 rocket carrying the Jason 2 satellite took off from Vandenberg Air Force base at...
- Research articles 2008-06-20
- Launch of satellite to track sea levels set for June 20
- WASHINGTON AFP — The launch of a US-French satellite that will track rising sea levels and ocean currents has been rescheduled for next Friday, US space agency NASA said. The California launch of Jason 2 had been set for June 15 but was delayed. NASA said Jason 2...
- Research articles 2008-06-13
- Launch of satellite to track sea levels delayed
- PARIS AFP — The launch of a US-French satellite that will track rising sea levels and ocean currents, scheduled for June 15, has been delayed, the French national space agency CNES said Wednesday. A new date for the California launch of Jason 2 will be set by NASA in...
- Research articles 2008-06-11
- Rainy workdays
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This summer, storm chasers looking for the heaviest average rainstorms in the southeastern United States should venture out midweek in the afternoons. So suggests a study by NASA meteorologist Thomas L. Bell and five colleagues, who analyzed data gathered between 1998 and 2005 by the Tropical...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Aerospace & Defense News - Space
- Apr 21, 2008 The future lies in using advanced robotics, miniaturisation and fabrication, said Lord Martin Rees, the president of the Royal Society. Europe "should try and get a world lead in unmanned exploration", he said. Spending funds on manned spaceflights "was not a very good use of money",...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper
- BERLIN AFP — A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam AIP to calculate that there was a...
- Research articles 2008-04-15
- Aerospace & Defense News - Space
- Mar 24, 2008 NASA tests orbital putty for repairing shuttle tiles. Astronauts on Thursday evaluated ways to repair damaged tiles on the space shuttle and filled holes and gouges with orbital spackle. The tiles protect the shuttle from the heat of re-entry, and the tests will demonstrate whether the...
- Research articles 2008-03-24
- Aerospace & Defense News - Space
- Mar 17, 2008 Space station robot fails to power up. The new $210 million robot on the International Space Station failed to power up on Thursday. NASA officials say they are fairly confident that they can fix the robot quickly and plan to make software changes after 5 p.m....
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- Aerospace & Defense News - Space
- Mar 10, 2008 Defense officials have not decided when to launch the Transformational Satellites program. Gary Payton, deputy undersecretary for the Air Force for space programs, said an ongoing analysis will help officials decide whether the program needs "rephasing ... re-architecting" in order to provide communications capabilities to the...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- Aerospace & Defense News - Defense
- Mar 10, 2008 Defense officials have not decided when to launch the Transformational Satellites program. Gary Payton, deputy undersecretary for the Air Force for space programs, said an ongoing analysis will help officials decide whether the program needs "rephasing ... re-architecting" in order to provide communications capabilities to the...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- Aerospace & Defense News - Space
- Mar 3, 2008 Updated moon maps will help NASA decide landing sites, lunar base Feb 28, 2008 Pentagon calls satellite takedown a success. Experts examined debris from an ailing government satellite to conclude that a missile launched last week successfully destroyed the craft's fuel tank. Officials were concerned...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
- The great rope in the sky
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Scandinavians of old thought northern lights were the reflection of giant schools of herring in the sea. Gone are those days: physicists now know that charged particles emitted by the Sun the solar wind--interact with Earth's upper atmosphere near the poles to generate auroras. And satellites recently...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Shuttle to return ahead of satellite shooting
- WASHINGTON -- The shuttle Atlantis left the International Space Station on Monday and headed home for a planned Wednesday landing, clearing the way for a Defense Department effort to shoot down a failed spy satellite. The shuttle and its seven-member crew left the station after almost nine days...
- Research articles 2008-02-19
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