Orbital Sciences Corp., which makes small rockets and space systems, reported a higher quarterly profit helped by a ramp-up of contract activity on NASA’s Orion human spacecraft program and expansion of commercial satellite manufacturing. Read more
House and Senate appropriators have pushed back against NASA’s proposed termination of a planned 2011 robotic lunar lander mission, directing the agency to spend $20 million this year to continue work on a follow-on to the 2008 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The directive, in the form of a letter from Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Rep. [...]
NASA has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Air Force to support abort flight test requirements for the Orion Project. The Air Force has contracted with Orbital Sciences Corp. of Chandler, Ariz., to provide launch services for the flight tests. The agreement with the Air Force’s Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland Air [...]
After a trip out of town its time to catch up on last weeks news. NASA, Lockheed fret over Orion funding Astronauts, NASA brass recognize Phoenix contributions to space program Orbital to provide Orion crew exploration vehicle launch abort test booster for NASA NASA turns to past for ideas – Orion will use Apollo-style equipment [...]
Remarks to Conference on Quality in the Space and Defense Industries Cape Canaveral, Florida Rex Geveden NASA Associate Administrator March 26, 2007 Thank you Rob (Rob Ellison, KSC) for that generous introduction and good morning ladies and gentlemen. It pleases me to be here back at the Cape to kick off the nation’s pre-eminent aerospace [...]
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery By the Honorable Shana Dale NASA Deputy Administrator JPL’s 19th Annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business March 5th, 2007 Thank you Glenn (Delgado Assistant Administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs) for those kind words of introduction. I’d also like to thank Eugene L Tattini, Deputy Director JPL and [...]
With the promise of spring warmth finally headed for a cold-weary east coast, the Orion and Ares programs are making steady progress towards the major events of the year. The ESMD (Exploration Systems Mission Directorate) top priorities remain selection of prime contractors for the Ares 1 second stage and the launcher’s instrument unit. A number [...]
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.announced the appointment of Bill Townsend as vice president for Exploration Systems. Townsend will lead the company’s pursuit of the Instrument Unit contract for the Ares I launch vehicle. He will relocate from Boulder to the company’s Huntsville, Ala. office. Townsend has been vice president and general manager of Ball Aerospace’s [...]
NASA continues to have too little funding for everything that the space agency, authorizing committees, appropriations committees, and the science community want it to do. This lack of money was a consistent theme at a series of recent hearings, echoing the same problem that was raised a year ago at hearings on Capitol Hill. In [...]
As early as 2009, applicants to the astronaut corps will face new size limits, including on weight and sitting height. That’s a result of NASA’s plan to retire the space shuttle in 2010 and switch entirely to smaller vehicles. The exact limits haven’t been determined because new vehicles are still in development. Since shuttle flights [...]