PRESS RELEASE
Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that it will release its first quarter 2009 financial results prior to the opening of the market on Tuesday, April 28, 2009.
U.S. Rep. U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Chairwoman of the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, recently toured the Tucson-based Paragon Space Development Corporation – a fast growing company that is doing key work for NASA and other organizations.
I found an announcement of the upcoming visit on the Paragon website. Although the news is a bit old, it contains a good summary of the company’s major projects, which include making life support systems for NASA’s new vehicles, the space agency’s new spacesuit, and growing a plant on the moon.
SIERRA NEVADA PRESS RELEASE
Small, low cost, satellites that can be rapidly fielded to augment traditional large national security satellites continue to gain attention in a time of constrained military budgets.
KBKhA Press Release 17 April 2009 Development tests of the new liquid-propellant rocket engine to be used for Soyuz-2-1b and Angara are continued at KBKhA company, Voronezh. The forth fire test of the engine sample (750 sec) was carried out yesterday to test thrust and component ratio. Operation time of the engine in the facility reach 3000 sec, which is equal to 11 flight operation times. In parallel, the company […]
In a speech at the 12th Conference of the Russian Tsiolkovsky Cosmonautics Academy, Roskosmos administrator Anatoly Perminov said that the Russian space sector has been improving in spite of an economic downturn.
ESA Invests 100 Million Euros in Delayed Soyuz, Vega Programs
Space News
The European Space Agency (ESA) has agreed to make supplemental investments of 100 million euros ($132 million) in the Soyuz and Vega rocket programs to take account of development delays but has not yet agreed to pay higher prices to launch ESA satellites aboard either rocket, ESA Launch Director Antonio Fabrizi said.
A team from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has won the Microgravity Research Competition for an experiment into how to develop better medicines using microgravity.
Rocket Racers Take It Slow
Cosmic Log
The economic downturn has forced the Rocket Racing League and other ventures to scale back their suborbital ambitions – but the league’s leader says his plans for a “NASCAR with rockets” are still moving ahead, more than three years after they were unveiled….
Big Test Looms for NASA’s Future Rocket
Space.com
The pieces are coming together for the first test flight of NASA’s new rocket, Ares 1, scheduled to lift off this summer.
The rocket prototype, called Ares 1-X, is scheduled to blast off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The flight will be unmanned, and will only include a partial first stage of the rocket, which should lift the vehicle and mockups of its upper stage to about 25 miles (40.2 kilometers) in roughly two minutes.
The First Ugandan in Outer Space
The East African
This year, Ashish Thakkar, who believes heights have always worked magic for him, is planning a far more daring escapade that is going to take him rather higher than the top of the Burj al Arab.
Instead of a constellation of man-made lights, this time around he will be surrounded by the countless trillions of stars in the universe.
Lawmakers Pressure NASA to Delay Shuttle’s Retirement
Wall Street Journal
The faltering economy threatens to disrupt plans to retire the U.S. space-shuttle fleet next year and free up funds to develop a new generation of manned spacecraft.
With Florida and parts of Texas particularly hard hit by the recession, their congressional delegations are maneuvering to stave off thousands of additional layoffs there by delaying shuttle retirements.