Com Dev ousts Canadian head after profit warning
CBC News
Satellite component maker Com Dev International Ltd. has replaced the head of its Canadian unit after warning of disappointing quarterly results due to cost overruns.
The Space Review looks at the Flexible Path option, U.S. China cooperation, space solar power and more.
Space Show guests this week include Howard Bloom, Wayne White, Brian Horais and Marshall Kaplan.
NSS ANNOUNCEMENT
From February 21-23, 2010, the National Space Society (NSS) and the Space Exploration Alliance (SEA) will be holding the annual Legislative Blitz. The 2010 Blitz comes at a crucial moment in the formulation of space policy.
EMBRY-RIDDLE PRESS RELEASE
November 2, 2009
The Space Shuttle’s fast-approaching retirement is opening up new opportunities for commercial space transportation, and Embry-Riddle is making strides to support the industry’s growth under a new collaboration with the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation. A new agreement with the agency identifies five space transportation topics that can be supported by Embry-Riddle faculty and student researchers:
PRATT & WHITNEY ROCKETDYNE PRESS RELEASE
Using technology developed for the nation’s ballistic missile defense system, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed hot-fire thruster tests demonstrating the ability of miniaturized thrusters to perform the descent and landing operation for a new generation of multi-use robotic lunar landers. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp. company.
SPACE FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE
Following a National Space Symposium tradition, the 26th edition of the premier gathering of the global space community will feature a panel comprising former leaders of a major space organization. The agenda for the 26th National Space Symposium includes three decades of directors of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an agency in the Department of Defense (DoD) that develops and operates overhead reconnaissance systems and conducts intelligence-related activities essential for U.S. national security.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has filmed a series of public service announcements for NASA.
AIA PRESS RELEASE
Our nation’s space programs need stable and robust funding to maintain U.S. leadership AIA’s Vice President of Space Systems J.P. Stevens said in testimony before the House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Thursday.
“Interruptions or cancellations impact large companies and can be catastrophic to smaller firms – often the only entities with the unique abilities to produce small but critical components on which huge portions of our economy, infrastructure and security depend,†Stevens said.
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI PRESS RELEASE
The University of Miami (UM) College of Engineering has been awarded a grant totaling $421,000 over five years from the newly established National Hypersonic Science Center for Hypersonic Materials through Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, to work collaboratively with other research teams in the area of hypersonic materials and structures.
A taikonaut emerges from China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft after a successful orbital flight
Former NASA associate deputy administrator Eric R. Sterner has written an op-ed for Aviation Week warning that the U.S. should be very wary of cooperating too closely with China:
There are ample reasons for the U.S. to keep its distance. While the U.S. explicitly decided to separate its space exploration activities from the military, China’s human spaceflight program is a subsidiary of the People’s Liberation Army. In that context, the risks of illicit technology transfer are considerable.
NASA Clamors for Safer Launches: Reliability Must Grow Tenfold in New Rockets
Florida Today
Documents obtained by FLORIDA TODAY through the Freedom of Information Act show exactly where the actual risk-takers stand.
NASA’s Astronaut Office says the next crew launch vehicle should be 10 times safer than the shuttle, which is set for retirement after five more flights.