CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla — The 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite at 6:38 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 here.
“The outstanding ULA, NRO and Air Force partnership made yet another successful mission,” said Lt. Col. William Heuck, 5th Space Launch Squadron commander.
NGF PR — LOS ANGELES, March 10, 2011 — The Northrop Grumman Foundation announced today that the Foundation is accepting teacher applications for the 2011 Weightless Flights of Discovery program, a unique professional development initiative that places teachers on microgravity flights to test Newton’s Laws of Motion and energize students during their formative middle school years. The announcement was made during the National Science Teachers Association’s (NSTA) National Conference on Science Education, held in San Francisco this week.
The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft lands. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
HOUSTON — NASA Television will cover the March 16th return of three crew members who have called the International Space Station home for more than five months. The March 29th launch of three new residents to the station also will be televised and streamed on the agency’s website.
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X-51 Waverider
AIAA PR – March 9, 2011 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) congratulates the X-51A Waverider hypersonic vehicle team on receiving an Aviation Week & Space Technology Laureate Award March 8 at Aviation Week’s annual awards dinner. The team was honored in the Aeronautics and Propulsion category.
A P3 Navy aircraft with Hangar One at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. (Copyright 2009: Douglas Messier)
NASA PR — WASHINGTON — NASA will host a summit about open source software development on March 29-30 at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT on both days.
NASA’s first Open Source Summit will bring together engineers, policy makers and members of the open source community. Participants will discuss the challenges within the existing open source policy framework and propose modifications to facilitate NASA’s development, release and use of software.
Gear down. (Photo: Mark Greenberg)
Virtuoso PR — NEW YORK, March 11, 2011 — The frontrunner and innovator of space tourism, Virgin Galactic, and leading luxury travel network, Virtuoso®, continue to surge ahead in the development of space travel. With an exclusive relationship in the Americas seeking out would-be space travelers and accepting deposits for future suborbital flights, Virtuoso’s ‘Accredited Space Agents’ (ASAs) have already surpassed the incredible accomplishment of $10 million in space sales. Along with continued deposits for the program, significant milestones in 2010 support the evidence that the dream of private space travel is becoming a reality.
Below are the initiatives that are being supported during Florida Space Day 2011, which will take place on March 16 in Tallahassee. For more information, visit www.floridaspaceday.com, Facebook at www.facebook.com/FloridaSpaceDay, and Twitter at https://twitter.com/FLSpaceDay2011. Space Industry Economic Development Initiatives Initiative House Senate Key Points Space Business Incentives Act (SBIA) Rep. Crisafulli HB873 Sen. Altman SB1224 Creates three separate mechanisms for attracting space business to Florida Fully Transferrable Corporate Income Tax […]
Delta IV Launch Rocket/Payload: National Reconnaissance Office L-27 (NROL-27) payload. Date/Launch Time/Site: March 11, with a launch time of 5:57 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Viewing the Launch Online: A live simulcast of the TV broadcast of the launch begins at 5:32 p.m. EST here. Launch Updates: To keep up to speed with updates to the launch countdown, dial the ULA launch hotline […]
This is the fourth tether flight of Xaero. This is a flight that runs until the fuel is gone. This makes for a good impromptu test of the structure at the end of the run when the rocket flames out and is caught by the tether. We did not fill the fuel tank all of the way up on this flight. The flight test went well and we’ll be back […]
An update on the Space Access ’11 conference from Henry Vanderbilt:
Four weeks till Space Access ’11! Book those flights soon; they’ll cost more if you wait. And reserve your room at the Grace Inn at our $79 discount rate – call 800 843-6010 and mention “space access”. (This rate is good for three days before and after the conference also, if you want to catch a little extra springtime southwestern sun.)
The conference runs from 2 pm Thursday 4/7 through the evening of Saturday 4/9, in Phoenix, Arizona, about ten freeway miles from the airport via free hotel shuttle bus. And if you still can’t make up your mind whether it’s worth it, see the latest updated SA’11 Confirmed Speakers List below.
NASA and Accelerating American Innovation Center for Strategic & International Studies March 10, 2011 — Washington, DC Speech Mr. Charles F. Bolden, Jr. NASA Administrator Panel Discussion Robert D. Braun Chief Technologist, NASA Christopher G. Caine President and CEO, Mercator XXI, LLC Tyrone Taylor Capitol Advisors on Technology, LLC Introduction Dr. John Hamre President and CEO, CSIS Moderator James Lewis Director, CSIS Technology and Public Policy Program
Jeff Foust reports on remarks that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden made yesterday in DC concerning NASA’s budget. Highlights include: New Technology Development Bolden said he has flexibility on spending on new technology development within the budget and that reports that Congress had zeroed out funds in this area are wrong. “Our understanding is that we have the flexibility to conduct, for the most part, the space technology initiatives we want […]
