CSA PRESS RELEASE
The California Space Authority (CSA) completed its mission to the Toulouse Space Show this week after an impressive agenda of speaking engagements and business development opportunities. Building upon the Space Enterprise Networking Agreement between the CSA and the French Aerospace Valley, CSA’s mission was to enhance business relationships and promote partnerships with California space enterprise members.
NMSA PRESS RELEASE
The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) has selected a contractor to provide construction services for the fences and gates at Spaceport America. After reviewing proposals from four contractors, the NMSA Board of Directors awarded the contract to Apache Construction Company, doing business as Valley Fence Company of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
ROSCOSMOS PRESS RELEASE
June 17, 2010
Representatives of Roscosmos, companies of the industry, Russian Construction Ministry and other authorities and companies arrived at Arum region to take part in the public hearing in the city of Uglegorsk, which had been picked as a place for the future Russian space port Vostochny.
The hearing will cover several major topics. Among them, there are: development of the Vostochny support infrastructure, environmental impact of the rocket launches, land usage, etc. The hearing is to take place tomorrow.
Deputy NASA Administrator Lori Garver
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver returned June 15 from a week-long, three-city trip to Europe that included addressing the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and signing a cooperative agreement to extend the mission of an Earth science satellite.
Garver’s visit also included discussions with key European space agency heads and senior-level officials in the German and French governments. The focus of her travel was to explain the administration’s new plans for space exploration and make clear that expanded international collaboration will be a cornerstone of NASA’s future activities.
“NASA has a long history of international cooperation,†Garver said. “Indeed, international cooperation was envisioned as a key element in the U.S. legislation that formally established NASA. We intend to broaden and deepen those relationships as we seek to implement the president’s new U.S. space exploration enterprise.â€
Diego Urbana gives a video tour of the Mars500 habitat in Moscow, where he and five other crew members are simulating a 520-day trip to the Red Planet.
PRESS RELEASE
The MiniSpaceWorld (MSW) is a global design contest open to everyone. The themes covered by MSW are extremely rich and vivid, with billions of lovely facets: this is without doubt true also for our closest celestial companion – our Moon, which is the topic of the 2010 Design Contest – “MoonDreams”.
ROK agrees to India’s space launch use suggestion
Sify News
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday agreed to Indian External Affairs minister S.M.Krishna’s suggestion to launch ROK satellites on Indian launch vehicles.
ESA PRESS RELEASE David Williams, Acting Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, will chair the ESA Council for the next year, effective from 1 July. He was unanimously elected as Chairman of the ESA Council at the 215th ESA Council meeting, held in Paris, France, on 16/17 June. He will take over from Maurici Lucena of Spain. David Williams leads the UK Space Agency, which manages all UK civil […]
Aviation Week reports that Ad Astra has finished an extensive round of testing on its plasma engine: Ad Astra Rocket Co., led by former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, reports new strides in the performance of its experimental 200-kw. Variable Specific Impulse Magneto-plasma Rocket (Vasimr), the VX-200, which the company is developing as a commercial propulsion source for a range of future deep space and possible near-Earth missions… Earlier this week, […]
Bigelow Aerospace's planned Sundancer space station
Bigelow Aerospace CEO Robert Bigelow has some strong words for critics of the Obama Administration’s plan to have commercial operators handle human spaceflight into low Earth orbit. In a press release announcing his company’s decision to join an industry lobby group, Bigelow said critics were “pernicious” arguments to oppose the plan.
We are becoming a member of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation at this time to join with like-minded organizations, who want to see America be able to compete again in the global space launch marketplace, and push back against the pernicious misconceptions that are being perpetuated to harm the Administration’s commercial crew initiative.â€
The Air Force is developing hypersonic weapons that could also pave the way to rapid access to space.
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain has been given another four-year term as head of Europe’s space agency.
